In this exhibition It’s Great to Be Young, on view through March 31, Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière in Paris offers the work of Ghanian portraitist James Barnor along with another contemporary photographer, well-known in France, Marc Riboud. Though the two have never met, they have worked in the same places, Ghana and the United Kingdom, roughly around the same time. In an attempt to go beyond the simple interpretation the iconic images of these two photographers (one from the North, the other from the South) would have left in the history of photography, here we are offered a narration marked by visible clues and photographic stories. In fact, this exhibition was made possible by David Riboud, who, a few years ago, brought a small print of his father to the gallery. It showed a bus with the inscription “It’s great to be young,” a phrase that echoed the name James Barnor gave his studio in the 1950s, “Ever Young Studio.” These photographers’ images, despite their differences, had already crossed paths in an exhibition called Another London at the Tate Britain in 2012
It’s great to be young
From February 15 through March 31, 2018
Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière
51 Rue Saint-Louis en l’Île
75004 Paris
France
