Love the living history. l-oeil-ailleurs: INTRODUCING FRANCOIS COQUEREL I’m from Paris, which feels okay. I’m 31. I started taking pictures when I was around 13 with a waterproof camera during my summer vacations. This is not an easy way to start photography. I was very curious about a huge bug in the grass. I really wanted to be able to watch it from a very very close distance. It kind of worked actually. The picture is still somewhere. From this first photograph since my today practice, what better describes it, is this quote from Robert Adams: “A photographer wants form, an unarguably right relationship of shapes, a visual stability in which all components are equally important. The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace.”  My life has changed just like anybody who would have started doing something when he was 17 or 18 and would still do it 10 or 15 years later. You still do the same thing but you’re not exactly the same person anymore. Saying that, photography is a medium that helps you being enthusiastic about things you can see around. Each corner is an opportunity. This is a picture from a series inside a very old Parisian theater. The owner was a very old man who had been a familiar of Sartre, Truffaut, and many other writers, film makers or whatever from the 60’s. He was now living alone in a flat under the roof of the theater. The place was filled with painting, letters and drawings, most of them gifts from many great artists of the past century. He was literally living in his theater, surrounded by treasures and posters of plays offered to him 30 or 50 years ago. Faces of dead actors on every wall. I started visiting him every week to take pictures and listen to his stories. Apparently, he used to have a walk in the building at night when the place was completely empty, sitting alone in the performance hall in front of the stage. Well, the man died before I could finish the series and before I could even take a portrait of him. Estelle Hanania puts a lot of magic in everything she makes.

Love the living history.

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INTRODUCING FRANCOIS COQUEREL

I’m from Paris, which feels okay. I’m 31. I started taking pictures when I was around 13 with a waterproof camera during my summer vacations. This is not an easy way to start photography. I was very curious about a huge bug in the grass. I really wanted to be able to watch it from a very very close distance. It kind of worked actually. The picture is still somewhere. From this first photograph since my today practice, what better describes it, is this quote from Robert Adams: “A photographer wants form, an unarguably right relationship of shapes, a visual stability in which all components are equally important. The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace.”  My life has changed just like anybody who would have started doing something when he was 17 or 18 and would still do it 10 or 15 years later. You still do the same thing but you’re not exactly the same person anymore. Saying that, photography is a medium that helps you being enthusiastic about things you can see around. Each corner is an opportunity. This is a picture from a series inside a very old Parisian theater. The owner was a very old man who had been a familiar of Sartre, Truffaut, and many other writers, film makers or whatever from the 60’s. He was now living alone in a flat under the roof of the theater. The place was filled with painting, letters and drawings, most of them gifts from many great artists of the past century. He was literally living in his theater, surrounded by treasures and posters of plays offered to him 30 or 50 years ago. Faces of dead actors on every wall. I started visiting him every week to take pictures and listen to his stories. Apparently, he used to have a walk in the building at night when the place was completely empty, sitting alone in the performance hall in front of the stage. Well, the man died before I could finish the series and before I could even take a portrait of him. Estelle Hanania puts a lot of magic in everything she makes.

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