Gen X / Gen Z by Magnum Photos

How does a generation tell its story through images? Are the concerns of today’s youth so different from those of the 1950s? Cristina de Middel, a photographer with the Magnum agency, traces more than seventy years of photographic history through two generations that seem to be polar opposites… and yet.

Moderated by Lionel Charrier, co-artistic director of the Planches Contact Festival, this conversation will explore “Generation X,” a project initiated by the founders of Magnum Photos—including Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson—who invited the agency’s photographers to answer the same questionnaire to capture a portrait of a changing youth. Revived in Normandy, this concept has now given rise to projects by Cristina de Middel on the “atomics” of Cherbourg and by Bruce Gilden featuring young farmers in Normandy. An event to explore how Magnum chronicles, from one generation to the next, the transformations of our societies.