Until 4 January 2026, the Musée National de la Marine in Port-Louis is hosting an exhibition spotlighting a pioneer who has remained in the shadows for too long: Germaine Kanova.
Organised to mark the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of Lorient, the exhibition features some fifty strong, intimate and raw photographs. A pre-war portrait photographer in London in the 1930s, Germaine Kanova photographed Cocteau, Hepburn and Arletty. But in 1944, she enlisted as a war photographer, following the French army into the Film Department, where she witnessed the discovery of the concentration camps at Vaihingen... all the way to Port-Louis, where in 1945 she captured the tragic discovery of the mass grave in the citadel. Somewhere between military propaganda, the duty to remember and a humanist eye, her lens captures the unspeakable. A must-see.
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From 24 May 2025 until 4 January 2026 -
