THE BEE PHOTOGRAPHER

Éric Tourneret

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bees © Éric Tourneret

 

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A honey harvest
in 14th arrondissement
of Paris, in the garden
of the Visitandines Sisters
private hospital.

 

bees © Éric Tourneret

 

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A honey harvest in 14th arrondissement of Paris, in the garden of the Visitandines Sisters private hospital.

bees © Éric Tourneret

 

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Festivities at the annual
Claret Honey Festival,
in the Herault.

 

bees © Éric Tourneret

 

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In Valenton, Val de Marne, France, a garderner-apiculturist in the garden of association "Le Jardin du Cheminot" opens a beehive, a cliché of traditional beekeeping.

bees © Éric Tourneret

 

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A beekeeper in a glass cage opens a hive and shows spectators the secrets of the life in a bee colony during the festival in Mouans-Sartoux.

bees © Éric Tourneret

 

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Near Hyères in the Var, a nursery school class discovers beekeeping at the Pradet educational apiary.

bees © Éric Tourneret

 

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Near Hyères in the Var, a nursery school class discovers beekeeping at the Pradet educational apiary.

bees © Éric Tourneret

 

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Near Hyères in the Var, a nursery school class discovers beekeeping at the Pradet educational apiary.

bees © Éric Tourneret

 

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The apiary school of the Luxembourg Gardens, created by the Société Centrale d’Apiculture on the Senate estate, celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2006.

bees © Éric Tourneret

 

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The Malvezins observe
a shallow frame
on their Parisian balcony.
Equipped with veiled hats
and smoker in hand,
these bee lovers
pursue their passion
and give the city
a breath of country air.

 

bees © Éric Tourneret

 

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The Malvezins observe
a shallow frame
on their Parisian balcony.
Equipped with veiled hats
and smoker in hand,
these bee lovers
pursue their passion
and give the city
a breath of country air.

 

bees © Éric Tourneret

 

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Armand Malvezin
installed a glass hive
to be able to observe
his bees in the dining
room of his apartment.

 

bees © Éric Tourneret

 

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At the Mouans-Sartoux Honey Festival, in the Alpes-Maritimes, a beekeeper welcomes a fascinated public at a tasting session in a reconstructed honey house.

bees © Éric Tourneret

 

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The village square is transformed into apiarian market for the Mouans-Sartoux festival.

bees © Éric Tourneret

 

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Olivier Darné
on a summer’s evening
at the “hive aperitif”
in the Butte de Chapeau
Rouge park in the 19th
arrondissement.
Olivier Darné calls himself
a “graphifarmer”
(graphiculteur),
one who breeds
both images and bees.

 

bees © Éric Tourneret

 

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Olivier Darné on a summer’s evening at the “hive aperitif” in the Butte de Chapeau Rouge park in the 19th arrondissement. Olivier Darné calls himself a “graphifarmer” (graphiculteur), one who breeds both images and bees.

bees © Éric Tourneret

 

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Set four meters above the ground between trees, a hive floats in the air for this “sky farmer.”

bees © Éric Tourneret

 

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Jean Poucton
and his hives
on the roof of the opera,
with the Galeries Lafayette
in the background.

 

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Hives have found refuge
on the training tower
at the Port-Royal fire station.

 

bees © Éric Tourneret

 

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The roof of the Garnier Opera in Paris, with the Montparnasse tower in the distance, is home to the seven hives of Jean Poucton.

bees © Éric Tourneret

 

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Honey harvest at a Paris advertising agency. Henri Meynadier, defender of bees and beekeeping, is the CEO of the Anatome agency in Paris’ 11th arrondissement.

bees © Éric Tourneret

 

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The apiary school of the Luxembourg Gardens, created by the Société Centrale d’Apiculture on the Senate estate, celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2006.

bees © Éric Tourneret

 

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The apiary school
of the Luxembourg
Gardens, created by the
Société Centrale
d’Apiculture on the
Senate estate,
celebrated its
150th anniversary
in 2006.