For its first edition in 2026, the village becomes an immense open-air gallery on the theme of Air · Earth · Water.
« Promoting culture in rural areas and building connections through a photography festival with a controlled environmental footprint. »
Grand Angle Léré is a European-scale photography festival held in Léré (Cher) and across the Grand Sancerrois territory. Set in a Loire village with remarkable architectural and natural heritage, along the banks of the Loire, the event brings together contemporary creation, rurality and environmental commitment.
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The first edition opens with three monumental photographic installations: In Memoria, La route des SOUFFLES and Tour de France des ONG.
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Three monumental installations.
Sabrina Di Geronimo
« In the immateriality and evanescence of our digital world, I seek to give body and duration to the image. »
Dedicated to Saint Martin — known for his act of charity after cutting his cloak in two to give half to a beggar — the installation by visual artist and photographer Sabrina Di Geronimo inaugurates the Grand Angle Léré European photography festival.
By a happy coincidence, the festival launch date marks the anniversary of Saint Martin's episcopal consecration in Tours, on 4 July 371.
To create this in-situ installation, the artist gathered photographs throughout her journey, criss-crossing the banks of the Loire between Tours and Léré, in search of memorial or evocative traces of the Saint. The photographic composition — 2.5 metres wide, suspended above the crypt — traces this process in a fragmented, symbolic and dreamlike visual narrative.
Imbued with poetry and spirituality, establishing a dialogue with the architecture between the visible and the invisible, In Memoria proposes to awaken a dormant memory and heritage.
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Born in Paris in 1978 to immigrant parents from southern Italy, Sabrina Di Geronimo lives and works between Paris and Toulouse.
Trained from a young age in analogue photography and darkroom techniques, she pursued studies in art history and aesthetics at the Sorbonne, obtaining a master's degree then a DEA in Aesthetics and Art Sciences.
Although admitted to the École nationale supérieure de photographie in Arles in 1999, she chose an academic path, nurturing a visual art approach to the image rooted in art history. A visual arts teacher since 2006, she has continued her photographic research and participated in her first exhibition in 2007.
Her work explores how images shape our relationship to time and memory. Considering photography as a material to transform rather than a simple recording of the world, she uses digital tools to compose images as a painter would. Nourished by the principles of cinematographic editing, this practice allows her to introduce duration into the still image.
From 2018, she began the series Tableaux des errances and Tableaux des mémoires. More recently, her work has expanded into monumental installations designed for heritage sites, where the image becomes simultaneously narrative, presence and place of memory.
Ana Bloom
« Everything on this earth began in sea water. Our relationship with water is universal; human rituals are cultural. »
Since 2015, Ana Bloom has been travelling the world collecting "Souffles" — a personal odyssey meeting others and herself. Here, time is elastic: past, present and future are one.
Her work unfolds at the crossroads of two routes: that of her family's exiles and the one she follows today. She sees them as a flow, like water that ignores borders, seeps everywhere, overwhelms us, cleanses us and makes us reborn.
According to her protocol, each participant renames themselves after the shoot and chooses a first name in homage to those who lose their breath along the way. Together, they participate in writing a new mythology.
Nothing is disembodied by artificial intelligence: these portraits are inhabited. The village of Léré forms a crossing point that directly intersects the artist's family route, after Marseille, Spain, Italy, India, Denmark, Cameroon, Morocco, Tunisia, Switzerland, South Africa and Pakistan.
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Ana Bloom is a Paris-based visual artist and photographer whose practice also includes performance.
Born in 1970 to a political refugee father — from a family born in Ukraine, who became Cuban during a first exile then moved to the United States before settling in France — and a French mother, she grew up in a cosmopolitan environment that fed her early reflections on identity and memory.
A graduate in History from the University of Paris 7 and in Photography and Visual Arts Technologies from the University of Paris 8, she exhibited for the first time in 1994 in the United States at the Mourlot Gallery.
Her work explores questions of identity, transgenerational transmission, and the relationship between human beings, nature and the environment. In parallel, she develops socially-oriented art workshops and teaches art at master's level. Since 2015, she has been committed to the "Route des SOUFFLES – BREATH project" and "Résistances VÉGÉTALES" projects.
Nicolas Henry
In France, one in four people volunteers for an association. Deeply moved by 80 Men to Change the World, Nicolas Henry imagined with the Fondation Lemarchand a tour of France of associations focused on sustainable development.
Since 2021, he has created an annual photographic narrative highlighting new associations — figurative and organic murals on the border of land art, drawing on theatre, gleaning and transverse paths.
The exhibition presented at the festival brings together 20 murals drawn from this committed and civic odyssey.
« Surveyors of initiatives, we were able to realise that the will of a small group can change European laws, bring social life back to entire villages… »
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Born in 1978, a graduate of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, ENSAPC and the Emily Carr Institute in Vancouver. After a career as a lighting designer and set designer, he travelled the world for three years as a director for the 6 Billion Others project initiated by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, overseeing the artistic direction of the exhibition at the Grand Palais in 2009.
Among his major projects: Les Cabanes de nos grands-parents (Actes Sud, 2011) and Contes imaginaires autour du monde (Albin Michel, 2016), Prix Méditerranée du livre d'art 2017. In 2019, he staged the 70th anniversary of Emmaüs at the Palais-Royal; in 2020, a monumental installation at the Place du Panthéon for the 20th anniversary of Lire et Faire Lire.
In 2021, he founded the Photoclimat biennial, for which he serves as artistic director — continuing a commitment where art becomes a tool for dialogue, transmission and awareness of social and environmental issues.
The village, an open-air gallery.
In 2026, the exhibitions occupy the Collégiale Saint-Martin. Over the editions, the trail will extend to the most inspiring locations in Léré — heritage, water and nature as backdrop.
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The challenges of ecological transition, read through the Loire territory.
Water
An essential resource and heart of local heritage: the Loire, mills, washhouses, wells, the canal, the river port.
Forest & earth
The agricultural and natural landscapes that shape local identity and the relationship with the living world, particularly the vineyards.
Flora
Léré is recognised among France's Fleuris Villages — a cultivated nature, present everywhere.
Ecology & biodiversity
Particular attention to issues related to the proximity of the Belleville-sur-Loire nuclear power plant.
You helped us create the first edition.
Thanks to your support, we were able to confirm the participation of several renowned photographers. Thank you to everyone who made this first edition possible.
the festival
Air · Earth · Water
Free and open to everyone, with a focus on the Belleville nuclear power plant and its integration into the landscape. Up to 5 photographs per participant.
The festival grows, year after year.
Launch. A landmark exhibition at the Collégiale Saint-Martin, private inaugural evening followed by a public opening on July 4.
10 exhibitions from May to September, including 2 photographers in residence. Exhibition tour across the Berry region and beyond.
Continued establishment of the festival as a cultural landmark of the Grand Sancerrois.
A festival carried by its partners.
With the promotional support of the Fondation Crédit Agricole Centre Loire, Destination Grand Sancerrois, PICTO, Château de Buranlure and the Mairie de Léré.
With the kind permission of the parish to host exhibitions in the Collégiale Saint-Martin. View all partners →
Culture must contribute positively to its territory.
We integrate sustainable development principles throughout our entire organisation. The festival is committed to the REEVE eco-events approach and has identified around a hundred concrete actions to implement.
Reducing our impact
Waste sorting, material reuse, limitation of single-use plastics, eco-designed communication and promotion of soft mobility. We ensure the preservation of sites hosting our exhibitions and the enhancement of local biodiversity.
Human & inclusive
Accessibility of venues, welcoming all audiences, attention to volunteers, families, seniors and people with disabilities. We prioritise local partnerships and continuous improvement.
Grand Angle Léré: revealing the beauty of the world around us, and taking care of it.