At the Jeu de Paume, the collection/passion of Sir Elton John and David Furnish
Love trigger. For more than thirty years, the love story that unites the Rocketman and the former advertising executive turned director is only family life, mutual support et photographic collection. The couple shares a certain taste for human images, powerful and vulnerable, deeply striking. Their personal collection includes more than 7,000 photographs, more than 300 of which can be discovered at the Jeu de Paume. Under the curatorship of the Victoria and Albert Museum which initiated this journey two years earlier, the exhibition Fragile Beaut̩ traces a plural history of modern and contemporary photography, taken from the 1950s to the present day. Across five themes: fashion, celebrities, desire, identities and photojournalism, we find the work of more than 90 international photographers. Among them: Robert Mapplethorpe, Diane Arbus, Irving Penn, Harley Weir, Richard Avedon, Wolfgang Tillmans whose works Sir Elton John and David Furnish have recently acquired, and even Thanksgivingthe monumental installation Рalthough infinitely intimate Рof 149 prints by Nan Goldin, presented for the first time in France.
Harley Weir, “Boys Don’t Cry†, Senegal, 2015
© Harley Weir
“Fragile Beauty†, exhibition at the Jeu de Paume museum (Paris 1st), from June 12 to September 27, 2026.
À at MEP, l’ABC from photo
Photography is 200 years old: happy birthday! To celebrate its bicentenary, the European House of Photography imagines, with the Neuflize OBC Corporate Collection, a true visual lexicon. Photography in full takes an intuitive look at the relationship, both intimate and universal, that our eye maintains with images of the world, whether they emanate from large or small stories. A free, playful and nostalgic primer to enrich one’s photographic culture.
Claude Cahun, “Self-portrait with mirror†, c. 1928
© Claude Cahun / Neuflize OBC Corporate Collection © Jersey Heritage Trust
“Photography in full”, exhibition at the MEP (Paris 4th), from June 10 to September 13, 2026.
At the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, the hypnotic poem of Nuits Balnéaires
Autobiographical. Melancholic. Poetic. The visual tales of the Ivorian artist Nuits Balnéaires are taken from reality, although they have a highly cinematic character. His project Accusedproduced as part of the Latitudes program of the Hermès Corporate Foundation and now exhibited at the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, is the story of a transgenerational memory, that of his uncle Noël X. Ebony, a recognized poet who died dramatically in 1986, while he lived in Senegal. Nuits Balnéaires honors his memory and resumes his enigmatic trajectory through a deeply embodied photographic journey, between shadow and light.
Nuits Balnéaires, “Adama et Awa 3†, Eboro, 2025
© Seaside Nights
“Eboro†, Nuits Blnéaires, exhibition at the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation (Paris 3rd), until 4 October 2026.
