How to visit Yes Photographies?

Several paths through a growing archive

Yes Photographies brings together tens of thousands of photographs. I have organised different routes to explore this archive: discover a few images, follow the exhibitions, browse the Reserve, find your favourites again or leave room for chance. Choose whatever suits your mood.

Three doors of the Yes Photographies virtual museum: the Public Collection, the temporary exhibitions and the Reserve.

Plan illustré du musée virtuel Yes Photographies, avec un hall central entouré des salles thématiques de la Collection.

1 — The Public Collection

To discover Yes Photographies

The Public Collection brings together 325 photographs, gathered in ten rooms. The visit is free once you have created an account.

Here I present an overview of my work: the body, myths, memory, emotions and imaginary worlds. Patrons can continue the visit in the Reserve, where these same rooms open in full.

→ Enter the Public Collection

The Figures Game

You can browse the Public Collection theme by theme or let chance choose. With The Figures Game, the photographs appear one after another, without your knowing which will come next. Another way of meeting the images, without looking for them.

Play the figure game

Emblem of the Figures Game: a fan of illustrated cards in a black and gold medallion.

Présentation du Jeu des figures : découvrir au hasard une photographie de la Collection publique de Yes Photographies.

Aperçu de la liste des expositions de Yes Photographies, avec leurs thèmes, leurs dates et leurs liens de visite.

2 — Temporary Exhibitions

To come back regularly

I compose themed exhibitions, usually around sixty photographs. I bring images together around an idea or a story: a couple in Venice, fairies, autumn, a metamorphosis or a recent session.

Four strands guide these selections:

Visual Narratives gathers fictions, transformations, characters and staged scenes.
Free Women explores the body as form, presence and language.
Embodied Intimacies approaches sensuality, closeness and desire.
What’s New in the Studio presents recent work.

Each exhibition can be visited without knowing how the archive is organised. Patrons have access to all the exhibitions.

→ Discover the exhibitions

3 — The Reserve

To explore the archive

The Reserve is for patrons and for visitors who want to go through my work more widely. It brings together the bulk of the archive in several large worlds:

Modern and Future · Emotions and Connections · Echo of the Past · Myths and Legends · Body and Essence · Eroticism and Sensuality · High-Definition Galleries · Archives · Studio Immersions

Each world contains many galleries. Studio Immersions gives sessions a place of their own, with thousands of selected and retouched images.

Several tools help you find your way around the whole.

→ Discover the Reserve

Aperçu des univers photographiques de la Réserve, dont Émotions et connexions et Érotisme et sensualité.

Galerie de portraits oniriques organisée en salles numérotées de 100 photographies, avec un bouton pour entrer dans chaque salle.

Exploring the large galleries: rooms of 100 photographs

Some galleries hold several hundred images, sometimes more than a thousand. To lighten their display, they are divided into successive rooms:

1 to 100 · 101 to 200 · 201 to 300…

You can move from one room to the next or pick up the visit later.

Building your personal collection

When you open certain photographs, you can add them to your Personal Collection. This selection is linked to your Yes Photographies account and stays available across your visits.

You can view it, remove images or add to it. A way of gradually composing your own Yes Photographies inside mine.

→ My Personal Collection

Exemple de collection personnelle : une mosaïque de photographies favorites réunies dans le compte d’un visiteur de Yes Photographies.

Liste des nouveautés de la Réserve : date de mise à jour, univers, nombre de nouvelles photographies et lien vers chaque galerie.

The latest additions: the What’s New page

I add photographs to the galleries and new series to the Reserve. The What’s New page lets you find these additions.

Each time a gallery is enriched, the site automatically records its world, the number of new photographs, an image of the new addition and a link to the gallery. That way you can go straight to the recent images.

→ Discover what’s new

Not sure where to go?

Let Surprise Me choose a gallery for you. The site suggests a destination you might not have opened of your own accord.

Emblem of discovery by chance: an open black chest reveals images in a golden light.

Présentation de la fonction « Me surprendre », qui propose aux mécènes une galerie à découvrir dans la Réserve.

Exemple d’historique de visite : les dernières galeries explorées, leur univers, leur date de visite et un bouton pour les revoir.

Your Exploration: find your way back through the Reserve

For logged-in patrons, the site remembers the galleries visited. This history is tied to the account and stays available when you return. The Your Exploration page offers three functions.

Resume your exploration

Find the last gallery visited by its name, its world and a photograph that helps you recognise it.

Your latest visits

See the galleries browsed recently.

A few paths to discover

Discover suggestions of galleries your account has not yet opened. They change to offer other directions through the archive.

Visit a few galleries to find your saved route afterwards.

→ Your Exploration

Where to start?

For a first visit, open the Public Collection.
To come back from time to time, look at the temporary exhibitions.
If you are a patron, explore the Reserve.
To see the latest additions, open What’s New.
To find your route again, go to Your Exploration.
To leave room for chance, choose Surprise Me.

Enjoy your visit

I keep adding images, organising the archives, and creating exhibitions and tools for exploring this archive. Take your time looking, find your favourite photographs again or try another path.

Yohann