Exhibitions

Chrétiens d’Orient (Eastern Christians)

– Présence continue des Chrétiens d’Orient, in Lille, at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de la Treille, with the support of the Flanders commandery of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. Interrupted on 15 March 2020 because of the coronavirus, the exhibition was postponed to Lent 2021, from 17 February to 3 April 2021. A press conference was held for the opening of the exhibition on Tuesday 16 February, from 3 pm to 5.30 pm, and the exhibition could be seen during the cathedral’s opening hours, from 10.30 am to 5.30 pm.

– Chrétiens d’Orient au berceau de la foi, at the Collegiate Church of Saint-Pierre in Douai, hosted by the dean, Bernard Descarpentries, from 9 to 31 January 2021. The exhibition could be seen during the church’s opening hours, from Tuesday to Saturday, 1.30 pm to 4.30 pm, and on Sunday, 2 pm to 5 pm.

Banners (continued)

The large banners were installed in Cambrai Cathedral by Fr. Christian Eeckhout in June 2020.

AlUla, merveille d’Arabie (AlUla, Wonder of Arabia)

In Paris, at the Institut du monde arabe, from 7 October 2019 to 8 March 2020. For an exhibition marking the promotional launch of the site of al-ʽUla / Mada’in Salih, we lent 14 photographs from 1907 and 1909, including 6 large prints each covering an entire wall. Opening with Fr. de Tarragon, together with Mr Humberto da Silveira.

Jérusalem et Terre sainte au tournant du XIX^e – XX^e s. Photographies du fonds de l’École biblique (Jerusalem and the Holy Land at the turn of the 20th century)

At the Dominican priory in Rennes, from 20 September to 18 October 2019. 47 framed prints from a set of 50 that came from the Strasbourg priory, in the care of Fr. Rémy Valéjo, and kept since 2019 at the Lille priory. Opening with Fr. de Tarragon.

Essor des écoles en Terre sainte (The Rise of Schools in the Holy Land)

In Paris, from 11 September to 9 October 2019, at 76 rue des Saints-Pères, diocesan office for Catholic education: 45 prints, 3 of them large, on the theme of schools. All come from collections other than the École biblique’s (mainly the diocese of Jerusalem and the Latin Patriarchate; the Rosary Sisters, the Salesians, the Sisters of St Joseph, the Sisters of Sion). Opening with Fr. de Tarragon.

Jerusalem in Photographs (continued)

A new showing of the exhibition first mounted in Kraków, then presented in Gdańsk and Lublin. In Wrocław (Breslau), Poland, from 12 May to 31 July 2019, at the cultural centre housed in the former synagogue, upstairs in the women’s gallery.

Pérégrinations / Wandering

“Image Festival”, in Amman (Jordan), from 8 April to 8 May 2019: 28 prints on the mezzanine of the Institut français. Opening on 8 April, with Fr. de Tarragon and the French Ambassador, Mr D. Bertolotti.

Banners

– The large banners were installed in Angers on 19 May 2019 by Fr. Christian Eeckhout, in the chapel that reproduces the Holy Sepulchre.

– The 2017 exhibition was shown again under the local title Bible et Chrétiens de Terre sainte (The Bible and the Christians of the Holy Land), in Saignelégier, Switzerland, from 1 to 14 April 2019, under the direction of Fr. Christian Eeckhout.

The Mount

Five prints in an exhibition in Jerusalem, at the Tower of David Museum (Citadel), Jaffa Gate, from 29 March 2019.

130 Years welcoming you to the Holy Land

An exhibition of 30 prints on the Notre-Dame de France building of the Assumptionist Fathers, at the Notre Dame Center in Jerusalem, from 13 September to the end of October 2018. Presented by Fr. J.-D. Gullung, Assumptionist, and Fr. J.-M. de Tarragon, Dominican, to mark the 130th anniversary of the Notre Dame Center. Event organised by the Legionaries of Christ of Notre-Dame de France.

Le Crac des Chevaliers. Chroniques d’un rêve de pierre (Krak des Chevaliers: Chronicles of a Dream in Stone)

In Paris, at the Cité de l’architecture (Palais de Chaillot), from 14 September 2018 to 14 January 2019. We lent 8 photographs of the Krak.

Hejaz Railway and the cities of Maʽan and ʻAqaba

– A new showing in Amman, at the Royal Automobile Museum, of the ʽAqaba exhibition. Opening on 29 November 2018, for one month. We lent some twenty prints.

– Some twenty prints shown alongside other photographic collections in the courtyard of the Ottoman fort of ʽAqaba (Jordan). Opening on 13 October 2018, for one month. Under the auspices of the European Union, the Embassy of Belgium and the Royal Automobile Museum (Amman). Fr. de Tarragon represented the École biblique.

Dead Sea from 110 Years / Croisières sur la mer Morte, 1908 et 1925

In Amman (Jordan), as part of the Image Festival: 24 prints hung upstairs in Mrs Linda al-Khoury’s café-gallery, Fann wa Shai, in Jabal al-Weibdeh. Presented to the public by Fr. de Tarragon on 7 April 2018.

Villages of the Holy Land in the early 20th century / Villages de Terre sainte au début du XX^e siècle

In Nazareth, at the French Cultural Centre / Institut français, from 9 March to 27 April 2018. We showed 32 of the 40 prints, already framed, from the previous year’s project for the Al-Kamandjati Festival of April 2017. Curator: Mr Raphaël Mercier.

Les soldats polonais entre 1940 et 1943 à Emmaüs-Nicopolis (Polish soldiers at Emmaus-Nicopolis, 1940-1943)

A large contingent of Polish soldiers had been stationed by the Allies at Latrun – Emmaus. That is where the 20 photographs were taken by the French religious living there, the Bétharram Fathers. The exhibition presented these twenty prints from the Bétharram Fathers in the atrium of the Priory of St Stephen / École biblique in Jerusalem, in February 2018. Opened by Fr. Paweł Trzopek on 17 February.

Jerusalem in Photographs

A continuation of the exhibition Jerozolima utrwalona (June-October 2017, in Kraków).

– In Lublin, Poland, from 2 March to 8 April 2018. The exhibition was mounted in the cloister of the Dominican priory of Lublin and presented by Fr. Krzysztof Modras, superior, formerly of Jerusalem.

– In Gdańsk, Poland, from 8 January to 2 February 2018, at the cultural centre in the former Church of St John.

Jerusalem ist jetzt in Berlin / Welcome to Jerusalem

In Berlin, at the Jewish Museum (Jüdisches Museum Berlin): eight photographs of the city, from 11 December 2017 to 30 April 2019.

A General and a Gentleman

From 1 December 2017 to 1 May 2018 (six months), at the Tower of David Museum (Citadel), Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem. Two small prints from the collection of the White Fathers of St Anne, through Mrs Nirit Shalev-Khalifa of the Ben-Zvi Institute and Mrs Dina Grossman, curators. The theme was General Allenby’s entry into Jerusalem a hundred years earlier.

Banners

As part of the exhibition Les Chrétiens de Terre sainte (The Christians of the Holy Land), at Saint-Julien Cathedral in Le Mans, from 6 to 23 December 2017, presented by Fr. Christian Eeckhout.

Chrétiens d’Orient, 2000 ans d’histoire (Eastern Christians: 2,000 Years of History)

At the Institut du monde arabe, Paris. Ten large prints taken from our earlier exhibition of the same name, Chrétiens d’Orient, at the town hall of the 5th arrondissement and other venues (in 2014): eight prints on a large wall (including the 2.15 m-long panorama of Jerusalem), and two prints of Armenian refugees in Port Said, 1917, in the small room devoted to the Armenians. Opened by the French President, Mr Emmanuel Macron, on 25 October 2017. In Paris until 14 January 2018, then in Tourcoing. The catalogue published by Gallimard includes 6 of the 10 photographs from the priory/École.

Marking the Sacred: The Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif in Jerusalem

In the United States, at Providence College (near Boston), a private Dominican university, during the conference of the same name, Marking the Sacred: The Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif in Jerusalem, on 5-7 June 2017. There were 31 digital prints made on site from files given to Mrs Béatrice Saint-Laurent (Bridgewater State University), one of the organisers and a regular at the Albright Institute and the École. The prints remained on display until 30 July 2017. At the conference, Mrs Saint-Laurent presented the images in a PowerPoint lecture.

Palestinian Villages before 1948

As part of the Al-Kamandjati Festival, in the cities of the occupied West Bank, from 5 to 23 April 2017. In all, 40 prints made by Garo-Photo (20 of 30 × 45 cm, 10 of 40 × 50 cm and 10 of 50 × 70 cm), under the direction of Aurélie Chaulier. In Jerusalem they were shown at Dâr Isʽaf al-Nashashibi, Sheikh Jarrah, on 19-23 April 2017, and also in Nablus (6-12 April) and Hebron (13-18 April).

Identity

Theme of the 2017 Image Festival in Amman, with Mrs Linda al-Khoury and the Institut français (CCF): 40 prints on the theme of identity, including 16 on the River Jordan on the mezzanine of the cultural centre in Jabal al-Weibdeh, and 49 more at the Spanish cultural institute, the Instituto Cervantes, at 3rd Circle. The festival opened on 1 April 2017 at Amman railway station, and the photographs on 9 April at the French institute and on 11 April at the Spanish institute. The 16 photographs of the Jordan remained on display at the Institut français until January 2018. At the Cervantes, they were taken down on 23 April and some were then hung in Mrs Linda al-Khoury’s café, Fann wa Shai, in Jabal al-Weibdeh, until the summer of 2017.

Jerozolima utrwalona / Jerusalem in Photographs

50 prints made locally from digital files, chosen by the curator, Mrs Iza Wałek, for the 27th Jewish Culture Festival in Kraków (Poland), from 25 June to early October 2017. Theme of the photographs: the Old City of Jerusalem. The exhibition was held in the cloister of the Dominican church on the square in Kraków, with the participation of the Institut français of Kraków.

Palestinian Villages Before 1948 — Villages de la Palestine ancienne

From 6 to 23 April 2017, as part of the Al-Kamandjati music and cultural festival. The openings took place in Nablus on 6 April, for a week, then in Hebron, also for a week, and in Jerusalem, from 19 to 23 April, in the gallery of the former mansion Dâr Isʽaf al-Nashashibi, in the Sheikh Jarrah quarter of East Jerusalem.

A selection of 40 photographs, printed in Jerusalem for the École biblique by the Armenian studio Garo-Photo – from 30 × 45 cm to 50 × 70 cm, depending on the original glass plates or the digitised paper prints from the collections of other Christian communities in Jerusalem. The exhibition included unpublished photographs of villages from the White Fathers of St Anne, the Assumptionists, and one from the Jesuits.

Jordan River — Le Jourdain

In Amman, at the Institut français de Jordanie (formerly the CCF), Jabal al-Weibdeh, from 9 to 30 April 2017, as part of the 4th Image Festival Amman, organised by Mrs Linda al-Khoury, whose overall theme that year was “Identity”. 15 black-and-white prints and one colour print (a 1954 slide) on the identity of the River Jordan, from the collections of the Dominicans, the Assumptionists, the White Fathers and the Salesians. The prints were made in Amman by Mrs al-Khoury. The French Ambassador, Mr David Bertolotti, attended the opening. Fr. de Tarragon represented the priory and the École, accompanied by Mr Serge Nègre, his occasional collaborator at the photo library.

The Identity of Places and People in Jordan — Lieux et personnages en Jordanie ancienne

In Amman, at the Spanish Instituto Cervantes, 3rd Circle, Jabal Amman, from 11 to 22 April 2017, as part of the 4th Image Festival Amman, organised by Mrs Linda al-Khoury, whose overall theme that year was “Identity”. 49 black-and-white prints on two themes: the towns and villages of old Jordan, including the capital, and human types; the prints were made in Amman by Mrs al-Khoury.