ARCHIVES – 1 juillet 2019 At twenty, the years are our only baggage Experience comes from the parents We take nothing seriously We always […]…
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The invasion of Lebanon by the Israeli army in 1982 marked the beginning of the operation “Peace in Galilee”. Photojournalist Yan Morvan is sent […]…
Bobby Sands died on May 5, 1981 at 1 am and 17 minutes. Bobby Sands was arrested and sentenced to 14 years in prison […]…
May 1977. In front of me, a stylish 30-year-old stares at me and immediately asks if I have tattoos. We’re preparing “Photo”, the magazine, and the editor-in-chief, Jean-Jacques…
According to the well-known Duchampian perspective on photography, Yan Morvan knows that “action” in itself isn’t much: only its consequences make sense. That’s why, horsing around with his often-scandalizing models,…
Champs de bataille [Battlefields] is a phenomenal book authored by Yan Morvan. The book is published by Éditions Photosynthèses. Yan worked on this project for ten years, photographing in the…
It was at the Seoul airport in June 2011, that I bought a little compact digital Nikon. I was en-route to the Pacific battlefields, and this exotic destination encouraged me…
During the Vietnam War, Marines would place an ace of spades, the ‘death card,’ on the bodies of slain Vietcong soldiers in an effort to scare any survivors… These Polaroids,…
Yan Morvan is a great photographer. The only problem is that’s he’s unbearable. But behind his endless outrages and provocations lies an unusually cultured man, a genuine tenderness, and the…
At the beginning of this edition Jean-Jacques Naudet wrote about the “journals en images” of Yan, shot in Arles, at Paris Photo, Visa in […]…