The eighth issue of EPIC Stories is out! As an invitation to the discovery of this quarterly photojournalism magazine, the Eye of Photography is giving away ten free copies of the latest issue*!
The contents of the Spring edition include “Les possibilités d’une île” by Corentin Fohlen; “Les derniers soviets” by Aude Osnowycz; “Argentine—joie-amère” by Julien Pebrel; “La maison de Sachie” by Nicolas Datiche; and a portrait of Marie Dorigny by Armelle Canitrot. Jean-Mathieu Gautier, the founder and director of the magazine, offers us an overview of this new publication.
« This issue is fairly straightfoward.
It starts off with a feature article on Haiti by Corentin Fohlen. Corentin is a buddy of mine; he has been working on Haiti for the past six years, and in 2014 we launched EPIC precisely with a story on Haiti.
One day, he called me and said, “the Figaro Magazine is giving 8 pages to my story, which is great, but I would like to stick with the topic.” The problem with weeklies is that, while they pay, and sometimes pay very well, regardless of what whiners may say, and while they offer visibility, their frequency is such that cover stories are quickly consigned to oblivion. Corentin wants to show a different face of Haiti, where there is no room for pessimism but rather a powerful, original story. And since he travels there three to four times a year, he is well placed to talk about it.
We also have an article by Aude Osnowycz. It is a rather personal piece on Belarus: a portrait of a small country no one in the world cares about. First, because nobody knows exactly where Belarus is; second, because it gets quickly lumped with former Soviet Union satellite countries, and so everyone thinks they know what this is about and move on. There hasn’t been much published on this subject, and personally I find that is rather crappy. I don’t know whether publishing it in a tiny magazine with little coverage, such as EPIC, is a good way of doing it justice, but I think it might help.
It’s a bit different with Julien Pebrel’s Argentina. He and I bumped into each other once outside the Bayard publishing house, where he had an appointment to pitch one of his ideas. I have followed Julien’s work for a few years, and I appreciate the poetry that, as a rule, inhabits his images. Julien had a piece on Argentina which came out in Géo. In the end this is a bit in the spirit of EPIC: I don’t pay the photographers, or very little, since my resources are very limited, and so I tell everybody: give me something for which you’ve already covered your expenses, otherwise I’m not interested, you’ll be broke, and it will be completely pointless.
The final section is authored by Nicolas Datiche who lives in Japan and whom I’ve never met in person. We have nevertheless become friends and correspond regularly. Nicolas has been telling me for some time about a subject he’s been working on … for a while, about a woman who is rebuilding her house in the radioactive exclusion zone since the Fukushima disaster, which just recently had its anniversary. We hadn’t planned it, it just happened, it had to be.
So there you go, I feel again quite proud of this issue. Because the authors who have been brought together here, it seems to me, reflect the young vanguard of French photojournalism. They’re all in their thirties, passionate, courageous, conscientious, super talented, social media buffs, who are also thinking about what still persists in the age of the great world wide web, that is paper, high-quality paper that you can hold in your hands, preserve and rediscover even years later… »
– Jean-Matthieu Gautier
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MAGAZINE
Epic Stories #8
104 pages
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