Marianne Dissard

I love sending prints of ‘Doris’ to collectors all over the globe! Here’s the latest in her new London home.

‘Doris’ has been the most collected of the 2020-2021 Ramsgate ‘pandemic’ series.

‘Doris’ was unveiled in Ramsgate on the ´fence’ in summer 2021, then shown in group shows at in Margate in 2021 and gallery in Ramsgate, as well as solo shows in Paris , Glasgow in 2022 and 2023 , and Edinburgh .shop just last September.

The large metal print from the Ramsgate ´fence’ installation has been on permanent display in the Ramsgate harbour (near Sailors Church) since 2021 and still looks fabulous.

And of course, the image features in my (sold-out) 2022 book ´On a Good Day You Can See France’, funded by

Will you join collectors from Germany, Australia, France, and the UK who purchased the limited-edition ´Doris’? Signed and authenticated archival C-types prints are available in two sizes: ‘small’ 20x30cm edition of 25 and ´large’ 30x45cm edition of 15 on FujiFlex paper by London. Prices: S £150.00 - L £220.00 including shipping from either the UK or within Europe to avoid Brexhit headaches.

Happy holidays! Thanks for your support

Here's to a 🎄Christmas🎄 party gone awry and to all the lonely longing souls of winter.

➨ LISTEN in my Bandcamp ➨ https://mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/track/single-je-tu-ne-croient-plus-au-p-re-no-l-2007

🎄🎄🎄 It was Christmas eve in Tucson, Arizona some years ago...

As far as Christmas songs are concerned, it doesn't get better (or odder) than this little ditty I wrote with Amparo Sanchez.

This 2007 recording was plucked by mythical Münich label Trikont for its celebrated Christmas compilation series, and sits pretty in a tracklisting that includes no less than The Ramones, Booker T., Ernest Tubb's Blue Christmas, The Band, and Sonny Boy Williamson.

"In the middle of all this, there's one European curiosity, Je et tu ne croient plus au Père Noël, a quirky ballad in which Marianne Dissard is joined by Spanish star Amparo Sanchez" ♥ Klang Jazz Reviews

"For the truly esoterical, however, sample the French language questioning of Santa’s very existence on ‘Je et tu ne croient plus au Pere Noel’ by Marianne Dissard and Amparo Sanchez" ♥ UK VIBE

🎄🎄🎄 Marianne wrote a letter to Santa Claus, asking him to please bring her a real man, not a boy, this year. Amparo plucked her guitar and the two friends celebrated the birth of a new song with shots of tequila.

Tucson's wandering chanteuse Marianne Dissard and Barcelona rock star Amparo Sanchez (Amparanoia) met when Amparo collaborated with Calexico's Joey Burns. With families away, their men away or gone missing, the two friends passed away time writing songs on a quiet Christmas eve. This one happened to have been written and recorded in Naïm Amor's house while he was away somewhere.

https://mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/track/single-je-tu-ne-croient-plus-au-p-re-no-l-2007

https://trikont.de/shop/themen/kraut-und-rueben/wish-you-too-best-christmas-ever

Here's to a 🎄Christmas🎄 party gone awry and to all the lonely longing souls of winter. ➨ LINK in STORY ➨ or go to my Bandcamp ➨ www.mariannedissard.bandcamp 🎄🎄🎄 It was Christmas eve in Tucson, Arizona some years ago... As far as Christmas songs are concerned, it doesn't get better (or odder) than this little ditty I wrote with @amparosanchezcantaora This 2007 recording was plucked by mythical Münich label Trikont for its celebrated Christmas compilation series, and sits pretty in a tracklisting that includes no less than The Ramones, Booker T., Ernest Tubb's Blue Christmas, The Band, and Sonny Boy Williamson. "In the middle of all this, there's one European curiosity, Je et tu ne croient plus au Père Noël, a quirky ballad in which Marianne Dissard is joined by Spanish star Amparo Sanchez" ♥ Klang Jazz Reviews "For the truly esoterical, however, sample the French language questioning of Santa’s very existence on ‘Je et tu ne croient plus au Pere Noel’ by Marianne Dissard and Amparo Sanchez" ♥ UK VIBE 🎄🎄🎄 Marianne wrote a letter to Santa Claus, asking him to please bring her a real man, not a boy, this year. Amparo plucked her guitar and the two friends celebrated the birth of a new song with shots of tequila. Tucson's wandering chanteuse Marianne Dissard and Barcelona rock star Amparo Sanchez (Amparanoia) met when Amparo collaborated with Calexico's Joey Burns. With families away, their men away or gone missing, the two friends passed away time writing songs on a quiet Christmas eve. This one happened to have been written and recorded in Naïm Amor's house while he was away somewhere. https://mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/track/single-je-tu-ne-croient-plus-au-p-re-no-l-2007 https://trikont.de/shop/themen/kraut-und-rueben/wish-you-too-best-christmas-ever

Forgot I recorded that one too... w/ Matt Mitchell on guitar.

I put it on my Bandcamp. Go listen: https://mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/track/single-mon-amie-la-rose-cover-fran-oise-hardy-2014

Françoise Hardy cover / reprise ' Mon Amie La Rose ' - video Dailymotion Watch Françoise Hardy cover / reprise ' Mon Amie La Rose ' - Marianne Dissard on Dailymotion

Find my albums, EPs, City Series, covers, singles on etc.

CDs, vinyl records, cassettes... Ask me how to get those for your stockings.

A discography, incomplete...

ALBUMS
2023 - Rappel*le
2014 – The Cat. Not Me
2011 – L’abandon
2008 – L’entredeux

'CITY SERIES'
2015 – Cologne Vier Takes
2012 – Berlin Two Takes
2010 – Paris One Takes

LIVE, OTHER, & EPs
2022 - Rappel (Frizz Records tracklisting)
2021 - Won't You Please w/
2016 – Cibola Gold: Best Of 2008-2015 track listing
2010 - Producers’ Audio Commentary
2010 – Live at The Hangar
2008 – Bluebeard Sessions (w/
2008 – Live at The Hut
2006 – Dedicated To Your Walls. May They Keep Blooming (demo)

SINGLES
2021 - A Tramp Shining / Richard Harris
2021 - Give a Damn / Spanky & Her Gang w/
2021 - Rosemary / Scott Walker
2021 - Gotta Get Up / Harry Nilsson w/
2021 - At Seventeen (‘Hers’) / Janis Ian
2016 - Pour un flirt avec toi / Michel Delpech
2016 – In The Aeroplane Over The Sea / Neutral Milk Hotel
2016 – Heaven Is For Blobfishes /
2015 – Mon Amie La Rose / F. Hardy
2014 - Le Temps de l’Amour / F. Hardy
2008 - Stop the Cavalry / Jona Lewie
2008 - Je & tu ne croient plus au Père Noël / Marianne Dissard w/
2006 - It’s so Hard to Come Home / Kath Bloom w/ Joey Burns

GUEST/DUETS

2022 - James Kirk & .alston Crooked Timber
2022 -
2019 - ‘The Best’ album ‘Brothers in Arms’
2017 - ‘The Best’ album ‘We The People Of The Soil’
2015 – – musics for poems
2014 – Producer second album
2011 – – “Ultra”
2011 – Arno – guest vocals by Arno on ‘Un gros chat’
2004 - - “Casey’s Last Ride” / Kris Kristofferson, w/ Joey Burns
1999 – – Ballad Of Cable Hogue duet
1999 – ABBC Joey Burns, Thomas Belhom, Tête à Tête
1998 – Wavelab / Wavelab Performance

1/ What Hamas did on October 7 was morally despicable.

2/ Hamas’s avowed aim to murder all Jews is morally despicable.

3/ What the Israeli government has done since then in Gaza is also morally despicable.

4/ The murder or kidnapping of innocent civilians is morally wrong.

5/ Israel’s policies toward Palestinians have been segregation and discrimination, based on ethnicity and religion, which are morally wrong.

6/ It is morally wrong to urge genocide against any group — whether they constitute a religion, ethnicity, race, or nation.

7/ All of us have a moral obligation to do everything within our power to prevent and stop all forms of genocide, all killing of innocent civilians, and the promotion of hate.

Finding moral clarity on campus about the Hamas-Israeli War Seven basic principles

East Kent 2021… Dover, Faversham, Elham Valley, Folkestone, Canterbury, Broadstairs, Margate, Sandwich, Deal, Ramsgate…. Grab one of the last remaining copies of my book ‘Of Kent: England Re-opening’. Find it online through my website or the Photobook Cafe London online shop, and in person at these fine bookshops in Edinburgh .shop , Ramsgate , and Glasgow

Links 🔗 in bio.

East Kent in spring 2021… England re-opening after a year of Covid. I made these photos in spring 2021 when I still lived in Kent. Some are quirky street scenes, showing people attempting a return to ‘normal’ life,and others are puzzling landscapes and ‘exotic’ things I encountered whilst roaming the streets, coastline, and fields of this sunny corner of England. It’s a small but arresting book that’s very easy to like.

OF KENT: ENGLAND RE-OPENING (2022)
Marianne Dissard

First edition of 100
60 pages
49 photos
Size: 21cm x 15cm
Paperback softcover
Printed in the UK
Bilingual edition FR/EN

My latest newsletter, sort of....

A few things whilst we brace ourselves for winter wonderlands Snow and beautiful winter light this weekend in the central belt of Scotland. Time to curl up with a good book and some warm music.

Link to article in story.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/16/royal-artillery-war-memorial-palestine-protesters-climbing-not-illegal-met

11.11.23 London ceasefire protest.

‘Lights Out’ — 2023 series around One Hyde Park in Knightsbridge, Central London.

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The rich are sadly understudied and binge-watching ‘Succession’ won’t cut it…

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This new b/w series by Marianne Dissard investigates how plutocracy (“Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%” J. Stiglitz) shapes the urban experience for the rest of us and what we can do about it.

The expression ‘lights out’ refers to the increasing number of Central London luxury investment properties laying mostly vacant year-round, a phenomenon Sheffield professor of Urban Planning Rowland Atkinson calls ‘necrotecture’, the architecture of death. Not unrelated, ‘lights out’ is also for the rest of us those times when utilities are turned off to save money or when stores shutter permanently.

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The project is weaved from two main strands, photography and academic research, in dialogue with each other and the city in a wider strategy of content co-creation.

Reference points include US New Deal-era photography, albeit of the ultra-wealthy and their environments, and re-politicized practices of dérive and Situationist psychogeography involving a practical critique of urban planning and, by extension, societal priorities.

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Although firmly rooted in a classical tradition of American urban photography, Marianne Dissard, trained in documentary filmmaking and visual anthropology, and a seasoned performer, favours using photography as only one of many tools in creating site-specific audio installations in public spaces, galleries, and stage productions.

In style and tone (but not intent) diametrically opposite Dougie Wallace’s in-your-face ´Harrodsburg’ series and unlike Karen Knorr’s 1970s quaint and puzzlingly human set pieces of her ‘Belgravia’, the purposely aloof and surface-obsessed photographs of photography-based ´Lights Out’ only reveal their full emotional power and ferocity by accruing meaning through various modes of delivery and cross-pollination.

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DM for signed archival giclée prints on Hahnemühle Photorag by Deadly Digital lab, Glasgow.
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‘Lights Out’ - 2023 b/w digital series made around One Hyde Park in Knightsbridge, Central London.

The rich are sadly understudied and binge-watching ‘Succession’ won’t cut it…

This new series by Marianne Dissard investigates how plutocracy (“Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%” J. Stiglitz) shapes the urban experience for the rest of us and what we can do about it.

The expression ‘lights out’ refers to the increasing number of Central London luxury investment properties laying mostly vacant year-round, a phenomenon Sheffield professor of Urban Planning Rowland Atkinson calls ‘necrotecture’, the architecture of death. Not unrelated, ‘lights out’ is also for the rest of us those times when utilities are turned off to save money or when stores shutter permanently.

The project is weaved from two main strands, photography and academic research, in dialogue with each other and the city in a wider strategy of content co-creation.

Reference points include US New Deal-era photography, albeit of the ultra-wealthy and their environments, and re-politicized practices of dérive and Situationist psychogeography involving a practical critique of urban planning and, by extension, societal priorities.

Although firmly rooted in a classical tradition of American urban photography, Marianne Dissard, trained in documentary filmmaking and visual anthropology, and a seasoned performer, favours using photography as only one of many tools in creating site-specific audio installations in public spaces, galleries, and stage productions. In style and tone (but not intent) diametrically opposite Dougie Wallace’s in-your-face ´Harrodsburg’ series and unlike Karen Knorr’s 1970s quaint and puzzlingly human set pieces of her ‘Belgravia’, the purposely aloof and surface-obsessed photographs of photography-based ´Lights Out’ only reveal their full emotional power and ferocity by accruing meaning through various modes of delivery and cross-pollination.

Artfully reframed by when she kindly took a photo of my print in her and ‘ new gallery space .shop in Edinburgh (a joint venture with .in.photography), I give you the sneak peek view of these ghostly figures from my 2023 Knightsbridge series currently hanging in a group show and sharing wall space with prints by and . Mine was gloriously printed in Glasgow by on Hanemühle Photorag archival. Available for sale at the gallery, unframed, for 120£. I will sign it for you upon my return to Scotland. Ok, that’s all for tonight. Back to reading about the roots of the war on Palestine.

Not sure who everybody was but there are a couple of familiar faces and places. I love going through the photo books when I visit the old farmstead in Béarn 🇫🇷 .

Edinburgh this weekend! Thrilled to congratulate .shop for their new gallery launch and grateful they asked for one of my Knightsbridge 2023 photos for the opening group show. Wish I was there to celebrate in person!

• • • RePosted ••• .shop It's almost launch day! 🥳 Sorry for radio silence folks, we have been working around the clock to get things ready for you and we are now SO CLOSE to opening the doors and inviting you all to 6 William Street.

We are launching the new space shared with .in.photography with a group show titled 'forty-one point five' - a celebratory exhibition showcasing contributors to both Studies in Photography’s 40 years and AGITATE’s first year and a half.

Massive thanks to for sponsoring the launch and providing the best beer in the Burgh to help us cheers to the coming months. We really want this new venue to be the very best it can be and whilst the to-do list is still mighty, we absolutely can't wait to celebrate the start of this new chapter with you all...

See you tomorrow! 👋 ❤️

New thing for sale in my online store.... PDF to the sold-out first edition photobook 'On A Good Day You Can See France'.

My first photobook, published in 2022 with funding from Creative Scotland. First edition of 50 sold out last year. This is only for the PDF. Designed and sequenced by myself. 79 photographs arranged in 5 sections over 124 pages. Conceived as a bilingual edition (Fr/En) with an astute 7-page preface by Raphael Mann

I designed the book myself, poring over thousands of photos I made in Ramsgate during winter 2021, the first pandemic winter... the year Christmas was cancelled in the UK. I wanted the book to speak of our collective experience of a traumatic time and to remind us of situations and feelings we've already mostly chosen to forget.

Photobook (PDF only) - 2023 'On A Good Day You Can See France' — MARIANNE DISSARD My first photobook, published in 2022 with funding from Creative Scotland. First edition of 50 is sold out. This is only for the PDF. Designed and sequenced by Marianne Dissard. 79 photographs arranged in 5 sections over 124 pages. Conceived as a bilingual edition (Fr/En) with an astute 7-page pr

We did it! Amazing premiere in Berlin for Ami Garmon´s new solo show ´Patience And Hunger’ at DOCK 11 in Prenzlauer Berg.

It was a joy creating these videos from Ami’s thirty-year archives and sharing these four performances.

Thanks to Xaver Hirsch for the help with video mapping, a new thing for me. He lent us his considerable experience and made the daunting task of learning a new software a child’s game.

Thanks to Asier Solana who created our lights and Thiago for the tech support.

Thanks to the indispensable Remo Lotano for the stunning scenography.

Thanks to Emanuela Laudati for costumes and Nino Laudati for assistance. Thanks to Bertrand for the faith.

Music by Greg Haines, promo photo by .

Thanks to everyone at … Anna, Ayako, Harriet… Walter Beckmann for the video archiving, and Frank Willens for the generous support.

Last but not least our hard-working assistant without whom this show would not have run as smoothly as it did. You’re the best.

Last again but not least, our audience… .17briefe and more more sweet people

Pix by Melu

Ramsgate has signed copies of two of my books, memoir ‘Not Me’ (2019) and little photobook ‘Of Kent: England Re-opening’ (2022), alongside Caroline Knowles’ ‘Serious Money’ about plutocratic London, a seriously great book that has been informing my current street photography series about Knightsbridge.

If you’re not in Ramsgate, you can order my books directly from me for world shipping.

Premiering tomorrow amin Berlin at and running through Sunday, my collaborative work with American choreographer and scenographer Remo Lotano from design firm Gisbert Pöppler on Ami's new one-woman show 'Patience and Hunger'.

Tickets now on sale at : www.dock11-berlin.de or just come on down to Prenzlauer Berg where the venue is located on Kastanienallee.

I'm creating videos and mapping their projection, culling from three decades of Ami's performance archives for this whimsical and visceral tour-de-force by an artist I very much admire.

I first worked with Ami in 1994. Our first collaboration, 'Petit Intérieur, 5 pièces', premiered that year in Paris at Palais de Tokyo/Museum of Contemporary Art for 's seminal group exhibition 'Hiver de l'amour', an international survey of young artists curated by Elein Fleiss, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Bernard Joisten, Jean-Luc Vilmouth, Olivier Zahm.

Some years later, I invited Ami to perform alongside me on stage when I toured Germany with my Tucson bandmates.

In 2013, I dramaturg'ed and made a video from her dance performance with Willens, 'Close Your Eyes and Add a Touch of Nothing'.

If you're in Berlin this week, let's catch up!

PATIENCE AND HUNGER :

Ami Garmon’s real-life story book, „Patience and Hunger“, is a performance reflecting, remembering, revisiting and ultimately reclaiming ‘what we loved’. Like the relative who sits down to spin yarns about trinkets, relics and images, storytelling - out of sequence and across a range of media - was always Ami’s mission.

„Patience and Hunger“ creates divergences and convergences to convey life on stage, and the stages of life, love, loss, grief and even laughter to something approaching hilarity and unease.

Berlin! Next week, four shows of Ami Garmon’s new solo with creative contributions from myself and Remo Lotano. At DOCK 11 in Prenzlauer Berg. Do come to the show! Tickets on www.dock11-Berlin.de event Patience and Hunger I Ami Garmon

Thanks to for the portrait in front of Edinburgh’s .shop where my photo exhibition is going on until the 20th.

Last weekend to catch it. Books and prints and merch on sale there.

Gallery is open 12-6pm Saturday and Sunday. Then again on Wednesday for the last day.

Thanks to the wonderful Edinburgh photographers, German fans (of my music, now my photography 🙂, and a couple of dazzling Americans who joined us last night at .shop gallery for the exhibition’s Pernod preview opening party schindling soirée in the creative hub of Haymarket.

It was good to share these photos of Ramsgate circa ‘the year Christmas was cancelled’ and talk shop with like-minded and like-obsessed street roamers.

I was very happy to discover the work of and . Edinburgh street photographers kick asses.

Thanks to and for being such wonderful hosts. I can’t wait for our next adventures in your new space. Thanks for all you do.

The exhibition is open daily (except Monday and Tuesday) until 20 September, from 12 to 6pm.

Opening reception in Edinburgh this Friday 6-9pm .shop in Haymarket (two steps from station).

Show opens tomorrow till 20 Sept. Gallery hours are 12-6pm Wednesday to Sunday. Closed on Monday and Tuesday.

Agitate is also a fabulous photography bookshop.

Come on down!

Thanks to Christina .shop, , Charlotte Cohen at Herald

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Close Calls: Coastal Kent Street Photography by Marianne Dissard at Agitate, Edinburgh West | What's On Edinburgh Multi-talented artist Marianne Dissard presents her first solo photograph exhibition at Agitate Gallery in September! What's On Edinburgh - your guide to events in Edinburgh!

Been collaborating with since 1993 ‘Hiver de l’amour’ Paris exhibition when we premiered our installation/performance of video/dance for unsuspecting art crowds… which led to residencies including a four-month stint in Marseille’s contemporary art museum directed at the time by who went on to run the in Minneapolis.

Ami and I then reunited when I became a touring performer and we shared stages for .tv and on tour in Germany backed by

Ami also became the ‘hands’ of the music video for my 2014 song ‘Election’ from my Tucson album with Sergio (with an alternate version using ‘ hands).

In 2013, I dramaturges and directed the video to their duo choreography’Close Your Eyes…’ for Berlin. (Watch it on her Vimeo! That two-hour 360 degrees show is amazing!).

And now in 2023, entering our fourth decade of collaboration, we reunite in Margate at with the help of to preview a work-in-progress version of ‘Patience and Hunger’ by Ami Garmon, a one-woman performance that will premiere in Berlin next month at Dock11. I’m very psyched about being in Berlin again and working with Ami and again.

If you’re in Margate this Saturday, tomorrow, join us at Tom Thumb at 8pm.

New show 6-20 September in Edinburgh!
shop Haymarket, open Wednesday to Sunday.

Hours are 12-6 Wednesday to Sunday.

Private view event is Friday 8 September from 6 till 9pm

Last day! Gallery is open until 5pm. The six High Street window posters can be viewed anytime.

on Albert Street. Photos of Knightsbridge by .dissard, soundtrack by Raphael Mann, metal crown by .

Thanks to and Owen and everyone from the festival. Thanks and Hold galleries. Also Kentish Lime, , Raphael and Bastien, Caroline Knowles and Sapphire at

Last day to visit my photo exhibition in Ramsgate, Kent for on High Street and st on Albert Street.

Soundtrack by Raphael Mann, metal crown by and photos of Knightsbridge in Central London by me.

High Street, Ramsgate. The street installation over empty storefronts windows for with QR code soundtrack by Raphael Mann available at each photo on High Street. See the gallery exhibition at on Albert Street.

Come on down! Gallery is open 11-6 today, tomorrow, and Monday. on Albert Street for .

Preview is tonight at Hold Creative Spaces on Albert Street. Installation is up on High Street (New Look and E.Coomes up from Poundland), and at Hold Gallery during opening hours this weekend until Monday included. Sunday at noon is Caroline Knowles reading from her fabulous book 'Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London', also at Hold.

This weekend! Photo exhibition premieres for Ramsgate Festival of Sound Trail the photographs of Central London's plutocratic streets in 'lights-out' storefronts of the pedestrian block of High Street between King St. and George St. and in a GALLERY exhibition at HOLD Creative Spaces on Albert Street during opening hours (Friday 12-8, Saturday 11-6, Sunday 11-6, Monday...