Photo : Olivier Jobard / MYOP pour The PhotoBridge Project
CROSSING, an exhibition on the Castel Sant'Angelo Bridge
Some photographs possess the power to shift perspectives, capturing the quiet strength of those who overcome impossible obstacles every day. Make your way to this open-air gallery to experience intimate, deeply human stories that bridge the distance between our world and the reality of others.
Pont Saint-Ange (Paris 10th)
About
The exhibition FRANCHIR comes to the Pont Saint-Ange in the 10th arrondissement from July 24 to October 23, 2026. Featuring six photographic series by Agnès Dherbeys, Chloé Sharrock, Olivier Jobard, and Guillaume Binet, this outdoor installation explores human resilience amidst climate crises, inequality, and displacement. By showcasing the stories of individuals working toward dignity and solidarity, the exhibition turns the bridge into a space for reflection on overcoming boundaries. This event is free and fully inclusive, featuring specific adaptations for wheelchair users, people with cognitive disabilities, and those who are deaf, hard of hearing, or visually impaired.
This exhibition brings together six photographic narratives created with women, youth, and communities engaged in contexts marked by exile, inequality, violence, or climate change. Faced with these realities, the goal is not only to bear witness but to show what is built despite everything: forms of resistance, invention, and transmission. CROSSING explores the passages everyone is called to traverse: crossing a border, an ordeal, a break, or a fear. Like a bridge connecting two shores, this exhibition honors anonymous heroes, those who work to transform lives and open paths toward greater dignity, solidarity, and hope. Each of these series accompanies local initiatives that transform daily life. Far from a top-down vision, the images are built in proximity, in direct connection with those acting on the ground. They become tools for storytelling and circulation: they make complex situations and often distant realities visible, restoring a central place to the people photographed. The exhibition is structured around three movements - resisting, rebuilding, accompanying - which delineate a single dynamic: that of lives moving forward, overcoming obstacles, and reinventing themselves in fragile contexts. Here, photography does not freeze. It connects and engages. It opens a space where the context becomes readable and where the gaze no longer stops at appearances, but at what can be understood, shared, and, perhaps, transformed. Like a bridge, it invites us to cross the visible and invisible borders that separate us to reach the other and imagine a common future.
The photographers are: Agnès Dherbeys, an award-winning photojournalist (Robert Capa Gold Medal, World Press Photo), documents identity issues. She worked in the United States for The PhotoBridge Project. Chloé Sharrock covers women's rights and contemporary crises, winner of the CNAP and the Grande Commande nationale. Her mission led her to India. Olivier Jobard has dedicated his work to migration and exile for over twenty years (Visa d'Or, World Press Photo, Emmy Award). He worked in Syria and Haiti. Guillaume Binet, co-founder of MYOP and The PhotoBridge Project, documents conflicts and collaborates with major humanitarian organizations. He carried out his reporting in Sri Lanka and Kenya.
Our take on this event
Taking place on the Pont Saint-Ange, the FRANCHIR exhibition presents a collection of six photographic narratives that examine the act of crossing—whether navigating borders or overcoming personal struggles. The works by renowned photojournalists Agnès Dherbeys, Chloé Sharrock, Olivier Jobard, and Guillaume Binet document community-led initiatives across locations including Sri Lanka, Kenya, India, Syria, Haiti, and the United States. The display is structured around three core themes: resisting, rebuilding, and accompanying.
Rather than offering a detached perspective, these images highlight the anonymous heroes who reinvent their lives despite difficult environments. The exhibition serves as a bridge, connecting the viewer with complex global realities while restoring agency to those featured in the photographs. The visual storytelling focuses on the ingenuity and solidarity found within communities facing severe upheaval.
The exhibition is free to the public and runs from July 24, 2026, to October 23, 2026, on the Pont Saint-Ange (75010/75018 Paris). Great importance has been placed on accessibility; the site is fully wheelchair accessible and tailored for individuals with cognitive disabilities, as well as those who are blind, partially sighted, deaf, or hard of hearing. Sign language resources are also available to ensure the exhibition is accessible to all.
