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40 ans de photojournalisme, Génération agences, by Michel Setboun and Marie Cousin #17

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This image is taken from Michel Setboun’s third book about agencies. Eighty reporters were chosen to comment on an iconic image  taken during their careers. The image we’re publishing today is a picture by Scott Houston.

“I took this picture less than a year after the Columbine massacre where two teenagers killed fifteen students. It was June 2000, I was in Charlotte, North Carolina, covering the convention of the National Rifle Association, the pro-gun lobby. The actor Charlton Heston made the trip. That’s where I met a family who invited me over. As soon as I arrived at their home, they showed me their guns. We went out in the garden to take a picture because the light was better there. I photographed them the way they wanted. I observed them almost as if they were aliens. The photo shows how happy and at ease they were with their guns, even though thousands of people are killed by them every year in the United States. Smiles on their lips and rifles in their hand: there’s something ironic about it. A photograph can bring out a way of thinking. It may be a thought shared by millions of Americans, but not by all of them.”

Interview by Estelle Faure

http://www.scotthoustonphoto.com

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