The 62nd Bièvres International Photo Fair took place on June 6 and 7, 2026. On this occasion, two Spéos students were recognized for their work. Congratulations to them both!
About the Bièvres Fair
Organized by Photoclub Paris-Val-de-Bièvre with the support of the town of Bièvres, the Bièvres Fair has become, over the years, a must-attend event for collectors and enthusiasts alike.
The fair is renowned for its photography exhibitions, as well as for its various marketplaces: the secondhand and antique photography market, the new equipment and services market, and the artists’ market.
Each year, the Bièvres Fair welcomes nearly 250 exhibitors and is located just 20 km from Paris.
This year, the artists’ market jury was chaired by Bruno Dubreuil, photographer and art critic.
The jury honored two Spéos photographers: Agnese Garrone and Mariam Ghalim.
Young Photographer Award
Photographer Agnese Garrone received the Young Photographer Award for her series Ce qui reste (What Remains), a sensitive exploration of memory and its gradual disappearance.
Inspired by Alzheimer’s disease, she chose not to document it descriptively, but rather to convey its inner sensation: that of a world transforming, fragmenting, and distorting. Light becomes a central tool—not to reveal reality but to reconstruct it—while cold, at times violent colors create a sense of distance and strangeness.
In her images, people are not staged subjects but presences: they inhabit the frame while seeming to detach themselves from it. The space, now mental and almost unreal, carries the tension between inside and outside, visibility and disappearance. Far from seeking to explain, Ce qui reste aims to make the viewer feel, immersing them in an altered perception of time and self, where what remains is not necessarily what is visible.
Agnese is a graduate of the Spéos Professional Photography program in 1 year.
> Discover Agnese Garrone’s portfolio
Special Jury Mention
Photographer Mariam Ghalim received the Special Jury Mention for her series Allah y Rahmo, an intimate work devoted to memory and to what remains after the loss of a loved one.
The project is rooted in the recent loss of her father and in the traces he left behind: objects, places, and memories. Born in Morocco and arriving in France at the age of twenty, the photographer’s father inspired a journey to Casablanca, retracing the steps of his childhood. There, Mariam Ghalim explores a land to which she partly belongs, suspended between closeness and distance.
Deliberately altered, the images play with grain to compose a fragile visual language that mirrors grief, punctuated by short phrases that resonate like echoes of her father’s voice.
Allah y Rahmo—”may God have mercy on him”—thus transforms absence into a fragile presence, where memory takes shape and where the father continues to live on.
Mariam is also a recent graduate of the Spéos Professional Photography program in 1 year.
> Discover Mariam Ghalim’s portfolio
Congratulations as well to all the Spéos students who staffed the booths and presented their portfolios throughout the day, contributing to the school’s strong visibility at this 2026 edition!
> Discover the work of all Spéos 2026 graduates
