BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY

Parisian suburbs are those of the poor housing complexes, the projects, the apartment towers where the architects of the 1960s and 1970s experimented in making new human environments...and failed. They are inhabited by the poor immigrants who were pushed out of the beautiful, expensive Paris. Drifting with a camera, expose a darker side because it is easy to flip the coin, pass trough the polish of things in order to be able to make some sense. Unless painting, as a scientific way to portrait the world, photography became very soon a propaganda tool. It became a necessity for a photographer to "unstage" what is in front of the lens, to give some reality to photographs. All it takes is a split second. The funny thing, is that if you add up a lifetime photographic work of any master photographer in term of split seconds (shutter speed) you end up with a legacy of 3 to 5 minutes of recorded images. That's not much ! I have a poor memory, that's why I need to lay things on film. See VIDEO