A renowned art and commercial film director who has won awards in Tokyo, Paris and Arles, where he was among the “SFR Jeunes Talents” in 2012, John T. pursues his art with passion. In 36 countries to date, he has photographed the rooms of young people born in the ‘80s and ‘90s. His next stop is Africa.
Nothing looks the same except for the smallness of the space, the common trait among a young generation which “ who shares what they want and hide the rest,” as shown by Malecq, a New York fitness instructor, standing among his carefully arranged clothes and hats.
He would seem to be very different from Pema, in Nepal, a student of Buddhism who already knows that, “spirituality and wealth cannot coexist.” It all began when John T read a special portrait issue of the magazine Réponses Photo, which instilled in him the mad desire to head out with his backpack and Canon 5D, free as a bird to embark on this unique project.
Like a Kerouac of photography roaming across continents, John T is also like Don Quixote searching for an ideal, trying to discover how these young men and women respond to that essential and universal question: “What do you need to be happy?” This most intimate incursion into the private lives of a generation reduces our planet to the size of a small village, and is a remarkable work of journalism.
All these photographs are a testimony to the world that surrounds us, to the terrible violence on our television screens which take us from a shooting in a Texas middle school to the extreme poverty in Nepal.
Read the full article on the French version of L’Oeil.
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EXHIBITION
John T. – My Room, Portrait d’une génération
From April to May18th, 2014
Central Dupon Images
74, rue Joseph de Maistre
75018 Paris
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