I am now going to introduce 28 photographs taken from newspapers in France and abroad. How shall I go about it? Introduction is a strange word. My French dictionary defines introduire as, “the act of introducing, of letting into.” The word listed before it is intriguer, meaning “to make complex, intricate.” Dear viewers, I am as lost in my words as I am in my photos. There are too many words, too many photos. How to write about them all? Fortunately, for you and me, there are well established neural structures to point us in the right direction.
Cinema, literature, theatre and painting are fields for discussions, or even battlefields. Photography is a Lalaland, where prizes are more important than the photographs themselves. The fixer has put a stop to more than silver salts. Now it’s freezing minds, too. Apart from that, I’m delighted to present you with the gesticulations of my friend Kim Jong-un, who is affirming day after day his personality as a Great leader, to remind you that the war in Syria is ongoing, and that France remains a country where photography is still something besides a market.
Michel Philippot
