GZ
20 Jan, 2025
"I've taken these photos at Grrrnd Zero (Vaulx en Velin, France). They're the start of a project I'll be working on throughout 2024. This is GZ manifesto: « You're now entering the GZ concert hall, which has been put together by a team of people who are passionate about what they're doing and who have put a lot of thought and effort into it. There'll be concerts, screenings, canteens, exhibitions and evenings in support of militant causes. We're not going to beat around the bush when we talk about incubators, cultural entrepreneurship and food. GZ is all about supporting the DIY culture and practices that aren't driven by profit. Admission to concerts ranges from free to €9.99 and we don't turn anyone away for lack of funds. GZ is self-managed with no operating subsidies.That's why we expect everyone to take the same care as we do in everything we do. We won't tolerate oppressive, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, racist or validist behaviours. It's also about creating a community where we can feel a little less alone, even if it's only to end up tearing each other apart on the eve of the food apocalypse. "
Graduated in Political Science, Romain Bagnard was born in 1979 in Lyon and has been practicing photography for twenty years in a self-taught way. He is now fully dedicated to his personal photographic projects since 2020 (after 15 years in the private sector). His work has been exhibited or screened in various festivals: Athens photo festival, les Photographiques du Mans, Tbilisi Photo Festival, les Rencontres de la Photographie d'Arles or Circulation(s) in Paris. He was awarded the Maison Blanche Prize in 2021. The starting point of his projects is often anchored in a very concrete sociological reality from which he detaches himself in the course of his work by positioning his series on a ridge between documentary and plastic photography. Influenced by psychogeography, he is also interested in the surface of bodies and things of which he capture the material and traces. He thus constructs an assertive visual language that proposes a sensitive alternative to reality.