One hundred and twenty years ago, the people of Bligny left traces of their lives through a collection of Louis-Lumière photographic plates and secular autochromes.

But what were they really living?
This new heritage exhibition from the centuries-old archives and old photographic collections of the Association of the Centre Hospitalier de Bligny completely changes the situation!
It is no longer a question -as in previous editions- of presenting portraits and group photos of the "Bligny people" of the past century, and of leaving the public to its fleeting and imprecise impressions alone, without giving anything more.

This time, the concept is based on images never seen before, put into perspective and confronted with our ability to apprehend what lies behind.

This opens the imagination of visitors more widely by proposing series of photos that take us on a dreamlike and imaginative journey to go even further.

But towards where then?

To review, a second later, a person already seen, but from another angle, another point of view, at another time, in another place, with other people gives much more information than a simple cliché.
Discover a place or a characteristic element of the decor where evolved the "Bligny people" of 1903, then go to its logical, natural, obvious or impromptu follow-up that brings much more spacio-temporal information on the lifestyle of those we observe, about their inner life, even their secrets.

And that’s not all...

Because we can’t tell you everything in advance...

Because the surprise linked to these unpublished assemblies brings us closer to those people who lived there a hundred and twenty years ago now.
You will have to make the journey yourself; through time; smell the air; feel, grasp, see and hear... what has disappeared forever and yet is given to us to rediscover...