The first photographer among the Bourse du Talent laureates selected to turn their lens toward PICTO—its history, backstage workings, and the people who bring it to life each day—Kamila K Stanley chose to share her vision through objects. Wandering through departments, engaging in conversation, she collects traces of a reality that is at times technical or even scientific, and at other times anecdotal, unexpected, or whimsical. Her vision of PICTO is plural, human, and singular—sometimes visible, sometimes more elusive. What emerges is the portrait of a family or a close-knit micro-society, complete with its own codes and quiet winks.
Her sensitivity lies in the way she carefully observes both bodies and spaces, objects and their environments—often carried by a narrative energy that blurs the line between documentary and fiction. How many stories do these still lifes from PICTO whisper about the hidden life of the lab?
In 2025, MPB, the largest global platform to buy, sell and trade used photo and video kit, becomes the main partner of Bourse du Talent, a historic programme to help emerging talent that has been supported by PICTO for 25 years. To mark this occasion and the 75th anniversary of the PICTO laboratories, MPB and Picto Foundation have joined forces to offer three former winners of Bourse du Talent an artistic carte blanche : how to represent today’s historic photo laboratory?
The PICTO x MPB CARTE BLANCHE is a continuation of our ongoing desire to put photographers in touch with the photographic ecosystem and to encourage the essence of their profession, the production of images. The CARTE BLANCHE PICTO x MPB is based on this particular magic, inherent in the photographer’s life. The three selected laureates of the Bourse du Talent, Kamila K Stanley (2023), Grégoire Eloy (2004) and Chloé Jafé (2017), will be immersing themselves in the Ile-de-France sites of the PICTO laboratories to offer us their singular vision of an environment, know-how, men and women at the service of photographers and their projects.
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