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Images de ville

The city shelters and surrounds us. It watches us live, work, love, and walk. Now it’s our turn to watch it. What do we see? Walls, bridges, rivers? The past, the present—everything runs through it, yet we rarely take the time to stop and watch it grow alongside us.

The Lyon Municipal Archives, together with the Museum of Printing and Graphic Communication, invite you to explore a shared exhibition showcasing certain ways of seeing the city, through words and images. It is an opportunity to share impressions of the urban landscapes we walk through—at once so familiar and so distant.

You will discover Grand Paris through the eyes of Annie Ernaux, who, in the 1990s, wandered and delighted in the streets of the new towns such as Cergy. From these walks she produced a landmark work, Journal du dehors (1993), a collection of fragments and charged words that the Museum of Printing has celebrated this year in Lyon’s public spaces, echoing its closure for renovation until 2027.

These short and striking texts then inspired master’s students in Photography at the Université Lumière Lyon 2, whose varied perspectives you will discover—from subtle, intimate portraits to reflections on our place (and absence) in today’s urban geography.

The exhibition also highlights the entries and the winner of the first Photography Prize of the Société Académique d’Architecture de Lyon (SAAL), launched in 2025 and open to students at the École d’architecture de Lyon—spotlighting a promising young generation facing the monumental challenges of the city of tomorrow.

City Images – An exhibition from 10 September to 18 December 2025 at the Lyon Municipal Archives
Free admission. Opening hours: Monday 1 pm–5 pm | Tuesday–Friday 9 am–12 pm / 1 pm–6 pm | Saturday 1 pm–6 pm
Closed on public holidays.
Opening reception: Tuesday 9 September, 6 pm

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Photo : Sofia Lopez Pazmiño