Louis Jammes presents until September 21 in the Gallery and the Showroom unpublished historical and recent photographs, from his collaborations with Jean-Michel Basquiat in the late 1980s to images made in Tbilisi, Georgia in 2019.
Louis Jammes was born in 1958 in Carcassonne. In the early 1980s, at the beginning of his career, he immortalized the artists of his personal pantheon, those who inspired his career as members of the Beat Generation, Andy Warhol, Lou Reed, and his relatives, the free figuration and those of his generation: Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Robert Combas, or Julian Schnabel, in a setting he designed evoking their work. Louis Jammes seeks gradually to explore the world through his lens, to account for the present time. He goes down into the street and portrays the “Bag people” in Barbès in 1987, anonymous posing in front of a painted decor, which he changed into heroes during a photo shoot. He then went to countries where major events in contemporary history took place, on the territories of the great reporters, in cities and countries that are suffering or are at war. In search of human nature. In Gaza and the West Bank in 1988, in Tunisia with the Palestinians, in Spain with the Gypsies and in Berlin during the fall of the wall in 1989, in Chernobyl in 1991 following the catastrophe of the nuclear power plant, in Sarajevo during the war of 1993, in Chechnya and Africa in 1996, in the Taimyr Peninsula in Northern Siberia in 1999, in Iraq on the day of the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, in Egypt Tahrir Square during the revolution in 2012, in the heart of Europe in 2015 with refugees. Louis Jammes does not photograph barbarism, but the victims. He does not wish to testify of these conflicts in the manner of a reporter, but to take sides, to be part of it.
Louis Jammes – DaDa avé moi
21/06/2019 – 21/09/2019
Espace à vendre
10 rue Assalit
06000 Nice
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