At the beginning of this edition Jean-Jacques Naudet wrote about the “journals en images” of Yan, shot in Arles, at Paris Photo, Visa in Perpignan and elsewhere.
Looking at hundreds of images, the smiles strike me.
As photographers, we know that most of the time people smile at the camera not us, but here, you all smiled at Yan, not his lens.
It has been said that a portrait of a sitter is also a portrait of the photographer.
Therefore, these smiles are all Yan’s smiles.
So, this is a very biased edit of those smiles, it doesn’t really matter where they were shot, he loved you all.
“Here’s looking at you, kid.”
The last time we sat around “a” drink you were swinging by New York, it will be my turn to pay you a visit, without any haste though.
Cheers Yan.
GD.
September 24, 2024
