{"692861":{"#nid":"692861","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Eyes Wide Open","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech French Center of Excellence hosts \u003Cem\u003EEyes Wide Open\u003C\/em\u003E, an evening of conversation and performance with four photographers \u2014 Nydia Blas, Joshua Dudley Greer, Yohanne Lamoul\u00e8re, and Geoffroy Mathieu \u2014 joined by musician Blanche Lafuente. All five featured artists have taken part in the Villa Albertine and City\/Cit\u00e9 Atlanta x Marseille residency programs. Join us for a unique showcase highlighting their international work and creative exchange.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EAbout the Artists\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/nydiablas.com\/new-page-1\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENydia Blas\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003Eis a visual artist who grew up in Ithaca, New York, and resides in Atlanta, Georgia. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Visual Culture at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. She has completed artist residencies at Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts and The Center for Photography at Woodstock.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHer work has been commissioned by \u003Cem\u003EThe New York Times, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, Time Magazine, Harper\u2019s Bazaar,\u003C\/em\u003E and more. Blas uses photography, collage, video, and books to explore themes of sexuality, intimacy, and her lived experience as a girl, woman, and mother. Blas is widely recognized for The Girls Who Spun Gold, a collection of images that resulted from a Girl Empowerment Group she founded after observing a lack of space and community for teen girls of African descent in Ithaca, N.Y. Her first major monograph Love You Came from Greatness (2025), is an exploration of one Ithaca-based Black family and its community across many generations. The book is also a formally rigorous examination of the taxonomy and syntax of family portraiture.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.jdudleygreer.com\/biocv-1\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJoshua Dudley Greer\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003Eis a photographer based in Atlanta, Georgia, where he teaches at Georgia State University. His work has appeared in \u003Cem\u003EThe New York Times, The California Sunday Magazine, The Atlantic, PDN, Le Monde, The Georgia Review, GUP Magazine, \u003C\/em\u003Eand\u003Cem\u003E Oxford American\u003C\/em\u003E. He has received grants from the Maryland State Arts Council, Tennessee Arts Commission, and the Aaron Siskind Foundation. He has published two monographs to date \u2013 Somewhere Along the Line (Kehrer Verlag, 2019) and The Makeshift City (GOST, 2024). His work is included in the permanent collections of the Harvard Art Museums, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the New York Public Library, the Do Good Fund, and the High Museum of Art.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/residents\/yohanne-lamoulere\/\u0022\u003EYohanne Lamoul\u00e8re\u003C\/a\u003E, a photographer based in Marseille, France, graduated from the \u00c9cole nationale sup\u00e9rieure de photographie in Arles in 2004. Her preferred themes are urban peripheries and insularity in its multifaceted forms. She published Faux Bourgs (Le Bec en l\u2019air) in 2018, a compilation of her series on Marseille. Her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions: MUCEM (Marseille), Portrait(s) festival (Vichy), Fondation Schneider (Wattwiller), ImageSinguli\u00e8res festival (S\u00e8te), Clervaux-Cit\u00e9 de l\u2019image (Luxembourg), and is included in public and private collections (CNAP, BnF, Neuflize-OBC). A member of the collectives Tendance Floue and Zirlib, she released her first film, L\u2019\u0153il Noir, in 2025.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/residents\/geoffroy-mathieu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeoffroy Mathieu\u2019s\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E photography explores how environmental and political issues are made tangible in the landscapes. Through travel and immersion-based projects, he documents shifting territories, in-between spaces, and objects and actions that reveal resistances in the way in which places are used. His photography series are all pursued as poetic investigations, combining rigorous documentary research with a poetic approach to build situated narratives. He collaborates with associations, collectives, and researchers to circulate his images beyond the art world, support causes, and contribute to public debate on ecological care.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA graduate of the French Higher School of Photography (ENSP) in Arles, he lives and works in Marseille. He presents his works as publications (Actes Sud, Poursuite, Filigranes, Zo\u00e8me, Wildproject, Building Books), solo or collective exhibitions, and, more recently, walked performances. He participated in the fourth edition of Regards du Grand Paris (2021), received the \u201cRadioscopie of France\u201d Major Photojournalism Commission (2022), and co-published Anti-installation with Jordi Ballesta (Building Books, 2023), supported by the French Center for Visual Arts (CNAP) publishing grant.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/residents\/blanche-lafuente\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBlanche Lafuente\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E is a French drummer and improviser. Trained in theater and jazz (DEM in jazz, 2018), she develops a body of work situated at the crossroads of rock, free jazz, traditional and electronic music, and performance. She is a founding member of the duo Qonicho Ah! and the trio NOUT (Jazz Migration 2021, Zenith Award 2023), and in 2025 she will launch Ganagobie, a project combining voice, dance, electronic music, and live performance. She regularly collaborates with large ensembles, notably Mats Gustafsson\u2019s Fire! Orchestra and Kogoba Basigui by Eve Risser and Na\u00efny Diabat\u00e9. Her work explores rhythm as a collective and sensorial force, linking music, bodies, and shared spaces.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESponsored by: Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts; School of Modern Languages; School of Literature, Media and Communication; Georgia Tech Arts; Atlanta Global Study Center; School of Design; France-Atlanta; Villa Albertine x Consulat G\u00e9n\u00e9ral de France \u00e0 Atlanta; City of Atlanta \u2013 Mayor\u2019s Office of Cultural Affairs; Delta Airlines; Air France; Jade Fiducial.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech French Center of Excellence hosts an evening of conversation and performance with four photographers \u2013 Nydia Blas, Joshua Dudley Greer, Yohanne Lamoul\u00e8re and Geoffroy Mathieu \u2013 joined by musician Blanche Lafuente.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Georgia Tech French Center of Excellence hosts an evening of conversation and performance with four photographers \u2013 Nydia Blas, Joshua Dudley Greer, Yohanne Lamoul\u00e8re and Geoffroy Mathieu \u2013 joined by musician Blanche Lafuente."}],"uid":"36009","created_gmt":"2026-09-28 15:19:44","changed_gmt":"2026-09-28 15:26:55","author":"cwhittle9","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2026-10-15T18:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2026-10-15T20:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2026-10-15T20:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2026-10-15 22:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2026-10-16 00:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2026-10-16 00:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"},{"id":"1284","name":"School of Modern Languages"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1792","name":"Arts and Performance"},{"id":"194681","name":"Exhibit"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESt\u00e9phanie Boulard\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:sboulard3@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Esboulard3@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}