Did you know that just 5 km from Paris lies the largest inland port in France?
The CAUE 92 offers a snapshot of the Port of Gennevilliers, a horizontal infrastructure of monumental scale, supporting industry in the Île-de-France region. To grasp the stakes of this site, an exhibition brings together unpublished photographs, as well as archives, maps, and texts by various authors. Like the river, this exhibition has an upstream: a commission given to photographers Géraldine Millo and Bertrand Stofleth, whose reports are informed by iconographer Anne Frémy. It also has a downstream: a book produced by Building Books, which compiles contributions from writer Fanny Taillandier and economist Nadine Levratto, exploring the times, uses, and transformations at play in the Port of Gennevilliers. Together, they provide an embodied, accessible, and subjective vision of the evolving and elusive concept of the productive city.

Port de Gennevilliers, Route du Bassin No. 6 / Credits: CAUE 92 © Bertrand Stofleth