Exhibition guide

From June 10 to September 13, 2026, the MEP presents a collective exhibition bringing together 34 artists from the Neuflize OBC Corporate Collection and the MEP collections. Designed as an alphabet book accessible to all audiences, “Photography in full” weaves unexpected connections between the works. Each association opens a door, contradicts the obvious and invites everyone to construct their own reading, between intimate reminiscences and shared imaginations. So many fragments that make up the little stories of the great history of photography, in an experience that is at once playful, free and full of nostalgia.

Visit details

  • Dates: From Wednesday June 10, 2026 to Sunday September 13, 2026:
  • Venue: Maison Européenne de la Photographie, 5 rue de fourcy, Paris
  • Price: De 0 à 14 euros.
  • Audience: All audiences
  • Source: Event page

About the exhibition

What do adolescence, stories, museums or even Burgundy have in common?

Produced on the occasion of the bicentenary of photography, the exhibition Photography in all letters is designed in close collaboration with the Neuflize OBC Corporate Collection. It brings together works from this collection, placed in dialogue with those from the MEP collections, thus offering a cross-view on the richness of these two photographic groups. Far from any linear story, it deploys a reading made of associations, encounters and shifts, where the works dictate their order, independently of any chronology or hierarchy.

Each letter becomes a word, each word summons a set of works which converse with each other in sometimes surprising ways. Here, the LIFE Journal meets the Kodak ad, Night Owls meet at the Museum and the Simulacrum negotiates with the Truth. These connections reveal the identity of the Neuflize OBC Corporate Collection - anchored in contemporary creation, but whose roots lie in the avant-gardes of the 1920s.

From Rineke Dijkstra to Bernard Plossu, from Agnès Geoffray to Florence Henri, the many artists brought together in the exhibition demonstrate multiple ways of seeing, showing and thinking about the photographic image.

Taking inspiration from Ways of Seeing by John Berger (1972), the exhibition takes up from this founding work the idea that “seeing precedes the word”: we first perceive reality before naming and conceptualizing it. It is this principle that structures this journey, where the shift and the enigma take precedence over the demonstration. Each room offers an association which is essential before any explanation. Each entry in this lexicon is accompanied by texts, quotes and anecdotes which illuminate, without ever exhausting it, the plurality of stories that photography carries.

Photography in fullis part of a long-standing partnership between the MEP and the Neuflize OBC Corporate Foundation, faithful support of the institution for almost thirty years.