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Founded in Mulhouse in November 2010, l'Agrandisseur organizes exhibitions, meetings, residencies and workshops with photographers and image professionals. The association encourages reflection on the photographic medium, its transformations and its uses in the field of contemporary art. Its main activity is the organization of the MPB - Mulhouse Photography Biennial.
L'Agrandisseur is a member of the Réseau L U X and the Plan d'Est networks.
Artistic direction of the MPB is entrusted to Anne Immelé, photographer and Doctor of Art. Her curatorial work is often based on a spatial understanding of places and on the association of photographs with one another, as demonstrated by the exhibition those eyes, these eyes, they fade (Galerie Valetta Contemporary, Malta, 2022). Her curatorial research stems from a doctoral thesis entitled Constellations photographiques, defended in 2007 at the University of Strasbourg and published by Médiapop Éditions in 2015. Her interest in the field of contemporary photography is also reflected in articles published in Art Press magazine.
A photographer, she is the author of several books, including WIR with philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy (Éditions Filigranes), Oublie Oublie, and Jardins du Riesthal, published by Médiapop in 2020 and 2022. Her photographic work is regularly exhibited, as in 2019 at Fondation Fernet-Branca (Saint-Louis) for a solo show, in 2022 at Galerie Madé (Parcours Paris Photo x Elles). Her recent project Melita , מלט -mlṭ, Refuge explores the contemporary migratory condition in the Mediterranean, linking it to the ancestral quest for refuge. Supported by the CNAP's aid to documentary photography, this project took shape in 2024, with various exhibitions during the Malta Biennial of Contemporary Art, in Palermo (CNAP's SUITES program), during the Jaou festival in Tunis, and at Stimultania, the project's supporting structure in Strasbourg. In 2025, she took part in the URNA project, the Maltese pavilion at the London Design Biennale, and was invited to take up a residency at the DATZ Museum (South Korea).
A teacher at HEAR, Haute école des arts du Rhin, she lives and works in Mulhouse.