Louise Desnos

My exhibition Acedia @vu_galerie is still on view until this Saturday, 15 November and you’re most welcome. I’ll be there one last time tomorrow from 5.30pm to 7.30pm. Prints are still available for purchase, from 24x30cm to 100x130cm. Please feel free to send us a DM or email. Otherwise, I’ll be signing my book tomorrow from 2pm to 3pm @le_grand_palais with @witty_books booth k01 for @parisphotofair ! Thank you to everyone who came to see the exhibition, who bought the book, and who showed interest in this work. It means a lot to me 🤍🩶🖤🩶🤍 🐌🤘🛏️

Acedia, 2024 🐌📚✨🛏️🌚 112 pages 23x29cm Hard cover Editing and design by Tommaso Parrillo @witty_books Graphic design by @ilaria.miotto_ Puplished October 2024 ISBN: 979-12-80177-44-5 Langue: français + english 37€ Is now available on @witty_books website and here: If you want to find the book, here it is: - Delpire, Paris, France - Librairie l’Arabesque, 104, Paris, France - La Comète, Paris, France - Galerie Vu’, Paris, France - La nouvelle chambre claire, Paris, France - Galerie Echo 119, Paris, France - Ensemble Books, Marseille, France - Tipi Bookshop, Brussels, Belgium - Artphilein library, Paradiso, Switzerland - Micamera, Milano, Italia - Camera (Centro Italiano per la Fotografia), Torino, Italia - Libreria Marini, Roma, Italia - Gucci Garden bookshop, Firenze, Italia - Dispaccio, Napoli, Italia - Photobookstore, Rotterdam, Netherlands - Bildband Berlin, Germany Acedia is a state of pain and affliction linked to a lack of motivation, weariness and disenchantment. Is lazyness a complete renunciation leading to self-abandonment and melancholy or ultimate wisdom, clarity in inactivity and renouncement ? Lazyness has become a common thread in my practice. For me, it is first and foremost a means of production, since the time freed from responsabilities and remunerative work is the time I invest freely. By focusing on my doubts and my scattered dreams. By pictures of random elements that are both significant and insignificant, but which find no other link than a kind of everyday chance, I’ve built this collection of images. My mind wander, gets lost, focuses on an élément, gives it importance and then resumes its movement. In most of these images, it’s about non events where signs of the time remain discreet. Sloth, incarnated by my characters, means their search for freedom or a space for introspection.

Just printing Acedia the new book by @louise.desnos ✨ Available at special price preorder on our website, official launch in Paris at @polycopies Graphic design by @ilaria.miotto_ . . #artbook #photobook #photography

outtakes @double_magazine with 🩱@mariehaustein 💄@celineexbrayat 👯‍♀️👯‍♀️@vickie_cherie @rosannatutta @asia.violin @loucye300 With help of @yahui.folder @nestnestnest Thank you @fabricepaineau @ekluczenko Jérémy Vitté

Next on our 2026 Spotlight Award Shortlist is Louise Desnos with her project ‘Acedia’. Louise Desnos, born in 1991, is a French photographer living and working in Paris. Since completing her studies in 2017, she has moved between artistic projects and commissions, and has been represented by Agence VU’ since 2022. ‘Acedia’ reflects on laziness, idleness and introspection as both a personal condition and a quiet form of resistance. Through images of stillness, drift and everyday non-events, Louise explores time, doubt and the fragile line between freedom and melancholy. Music track: Saved by Brothers by Aylex Source: /music No Copyright Music (Free Download) #BelfastPhotoFestival

In the last issue of @double_magazine with 🩱@mariehaustein 💄@celineexbrayat 👯‍♀️👯‍♀️@vickie_cherie @rosannatutta @asia.violin @loucye300 With help of @yahui.folder @nestnestnest Thank you @fabricepaineau @ekluczenko Jérémy Vitté

La Mue, c’est l’histoire d’un passage. Celui d’un été, d’une jeunesse, d’un regard. Le regard que pose Louise Desnos sur cette colonie de vacances à la fois commune et particulière. Une trentaine de jeunes scouts musulmans de 6 à 18 ans sont accueillis chaque été par les Éclaireuses et Éclaireurs de France dans les Gorges de la Loire. Issus des quartiers populaires de Lyon, ils se frottent à la nature, expérimentent l’entraide et apprivoisent l’ennui. Dans ce temps fait de peu, les identités se construisent loin des clichés et de la stigmatisation de la jeunesse et de l’Islam. La photographe française Louise Desnos fait partie des dix finalistes du Prix Virginia 2024. …. ”La Mue” (the sloughing) tells the story of a passage. The passage of a summer, a youth and a gaze. Louise Desnos’s gaze with which she embraces this common yet peculiar summer camp where thirty young Muslim scouts from 6 to 18 years old are welcomed by non religious scouts in the Gorges de La Loire every year. There, these working class youngsters from Lyon mix with nature, experiment mutual assistance and tame boredom. Far from the cliches and stigmatisation of youth and Islam, identities build up in these times of nothingness. The French photographer Louise Desnos was selected among the ten finalists of the Prix Virginia 2024. …. #prixvirginia @louise.desnos

In the last issue of @double_magazine with 🩱@mariehaustein 💄@celineexbrayat 👯‍♀️👯‍♀️@vickie_cherie @rosannatutta @asia.violin @loucye300 With help of @yahui.folder @nestnestnest Thank you @fabricepaineau @ekluczenko Jérémy Vitté

Recents portraits compilation Amandine Gay for @mouvement_magazine @tonyleung_official for @lesinrocks @juliengosselin_ for @nouvelobs Florence Seyvos for @societyofficiel @claude_murder

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Son rapport à l’image commence dans les albums de famille, à travers le regard créatif, attentif et bienveillant de son père. Le voyage en solitaire prend vite une place importante dans sa pratique, comme une façon d’observer, de ressentir et de prendre le temps. En s’éloignant du numérique, elle cherche à ralentir, à simplifier, et à privilégier des images plus justes, loin du flux permanent. Avec Acédia, son dernier projet, elle développe une série intime autour de la paresse, de la mélancolie. Focus sur le portfolio de Louise Desnos.

Acedia: (/əˈsiːdiə/; also accidie or accedie /ˈæksɪdi/, from Latin acēdia, and this from Greek ἀκηδία, "negligence", ἀ- "lack of" -κηδία "care") has been variously defined as a state of listlessness or torpor, of not caring or not being concerned with one's position or condition in the world. In ancient Greece, akēdía literally meant an inert state without pain or care.[1] Early Christian monks used the term to define a spiritual state of listlessness and from there the term developed a markedly Christian moral tone. This is a book that I find deeply political. An act of rebellion. A proclamation to stand still, to let it happen, without guilt. Louise Desnons offers a beautiful, poetic, and powerful visual analysis of this limbo, this state of torpor, this blurring of vision and mind. I recommend everyone to carefully browse through this book and follow Louise Desnos' work. FROM WITTYBOOKS WEBPAGE: /Acedia-Louise-Desnos “Laziness has become a common thread in my practice. For me, it is first and foremost a means of production, since the time freed from responsibilities and remunerative work is the time I invest freely. So it’s by focusing on random elements that are both significant and insignificant, but which find no other link than a kind of everyday chance, that I’ve built up this collection of images. My mind wanders, gets lost, focuses on an element, gives it importance and then resumes its movement.”