Exhibitions

FROM 3 TO 28 NOVEMBER 2026 AT THE JEAN GAGNANT MUNICIPAL CULTURAL CENTRE

Free exhibition, open during the Jean Gagnant Municipal Cultural Centre’s opening hours, from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM and from 2:00 PM to 7:00 PM every day of the week except Sunday.

Born in Limoges in 1952, Bernard Lazéras has never left his region or his native Limousin.
Passionate about photography from a very young age, he used his first apprentice typographer’s pay to buy a second-hand 6×6 camera. Long evenings spent in the black-and-white darkroom never discouraged him, and every photograph was a reward in itself.
He quickly moved on to 24×36 format and more modern cameras. Digital photography did not change his habits: the tool changes, not the photographer’s eye or personality, and in response to debates with those nostalgic for film, he transformed himself into an “image maker.”
By chance, life brought his path together with that of Jean-Michel Leygonie.

A photo exhibition on Les Gueules Sèches, featured in the programme of the second edition of Éclats d’Émail, marked the beginning of Bernard Lazéras’s collaboration with the festival.
For 20 years, he has not missed a single edition. Sometimes he has worked alongside friends who share his passion for photography, and sometimes on his own.

The exhibition he presents to us brings together a small part of his work: both the festival’s great moments and more intimate ones. A distinctive feature of his approach has been to revisit all his images in a square format and group them in sets of four—a challenge that was far from guaranteed at the outset. The choice of photographs was made in collaboration with two people who are dear to him and whom he does not wish to compromise, though he will very easily reveal their names if you ask him. There is both black and white and colour; each has its own charm, and it is up to you to judge.
In jazz there is movement; it moves and pulses, and he wanted to translate that motion into some of his images. Yet nothing is left to chance, and it requires a certain degree of technical mastery.
For him, you have to be in the right place at the right time, have a little personality, and above all a lot of luck. Talent is another story—and only you can judge that.

Bernard Lazéras has always been a little against the current. That is why he chose to have his images printed on canvas. He was won over by the painterly quality of the medium, without in any way abandoning the black and white of his early days. Everything turns smoothly in his mind, despite his attachment to his square roots!!!