I was born among the woods and fields of Sologne, not far from a village with a population of a thousand, Langon. It was there that my imagination developed for 17 years. As a child, my greatest joy was to watch the arrival of the bookmobile in the courtyard of our school. Later, it was Baudelaire who was by my side during my pastoral reveries.
I discovered photography at 16, in 1981, thanks to a young man from the island of Minorca, on the patio of a dorm at the University of Tarragona. He took my picture. I thought he was an actor.
I would also like to talk about another light in my life: Sandra Balsells. I’m not sure how she came to me, but after 25 years of working in the arts, I now understand why I feel such empathy for photographers. Their discretion fascinates me. In cinema, we recall titles, actors and directors. In literature, we think of stories and authors. In painting, a canvas is an extension of the painter. In sculpture, too. So… what then? Let us all learn to cultivate our memory and associate images with the names of their creators. In the end, what matters is that your photographs enter into our collective unconscious.
In conclusion, a tribute: to Robert Cohen and AGIP, which he founded in 1935. He taught me to understand photography in 1996 with his own prints. That left its mark on me. I would like to thank the agency on the Rue des Archives for allowing Le Journal to share his photographs here.
Lola Fabry
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