“Photographing is for me an act of love and a behavior in the face of time that is intimately linked to my meeting with Colette in 1991. I photograph by desire and need by choosing the moments that I want to keep the memory, taking the images of our lives to with an amateur autofocus camera in the palm of my hand Can not look through the viewfinder, I often frame with the uncertain feeling of cutting the space in the right place.Sure of the moment I’m less of the moment: I then have to take several shots of the same scene.The fact of framing without looking and never deciding where the focus will be made is one of the most magical constants of photography. Chance mingles with the desire and the pleasure of the moment which must be kept track of.
Photography is certainly the art that can be said to be the most tempting. The brevity of the shot making the immediate repetition of the photographic act always possible often plunges the photographer into doubt and uncertainty as to the image obtained. Try again, always and again. The doubt will leave only once the film developed, facing the moments seized successful. Looking at my contact sheets gives me a feeling of total rediscovery of the moment lived, and at that moment I see very precisely what I perceived more than actually seen. “G.G.
This book is the first volume of a collection, three other volumes are in preparation. This photographic journal covers 25 years (from 1992 to 2017).
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Guillaume Geneste
Auteur, Photographe
Guillaume Geneste is founder of the laboratory La Chambre Noire in Paris opened since 1996. He draws the images of many photographers authors and practices film and digital processes. In parallel with his activity as a shooter, he photographed his wife Colette and his two children Chloé and Gabriel as “family self-portraits” where he performed with them at their side.
Denis Roche
Auteur, Photographe
Denis Roche (1937-2015), photographe, poète, éditeur, est l’auteur d’une trentaine de livres. Son oeuvre photographique a été publiée dans de nombreuses monographies. Après avoir été directeur littéraire aux Éditions Tchou de 1964 à 1970, il participe au comité directeur de la revue Tel quel dans les années 60 et entre, en 1971, aux Éditions du Seuil où il fonde en 1974 la collection de littérature contemporaine « Fiction & Cie » qu’il dirige jusqu’en 2004. Avec Gilles Mora, Bernard Plossu et Claude Nori, il créé en 1980 Les Cahiers de la photographie et reçoit, en 1997, le grand prix de photographie de la Ville de Paris. Son travail a fait l’objet de nombreuses expositions, en France et à l’étranger, entre autres à la galerie Le Réverbère à Lyon, au musée Nicéphore Niépce à Chalon-sur-Saône, à la Maison Européenne de la Photographie à Paris en 2001. En 2015, une grande rétrospective lui est consacrée au Pavillon Populaire de Montpellier, sous la direction de Gilles Mora. Denis Roche est représenté par la galerie Le Réverbère à Lyon depuis 1989.
