François Lochon, photographer and owner of the photo agencies Gamma and Rapho, visited this week the Visa pour l’Image festival in Perpignan, France. To all his friends present, he asked the same question: “Why are you here at Visa?” Here are the answers, in a series of original street-interviews:
Jean Favreau, Pixpalace: “Why not?”
Mete Zignoglu and Paul Marneff, Sipa agency: “Because if we do not come, they will believe that we are doing worse than it is.”
Hans Silvester, photographer: “I come to see beautiful exhibitions.”
Wojtek Laski, photographer: “For business: I need customers for my new company.”
Thierry Secretan, photographer: “I represent contemporary photography, and I am here because I understood how to protect the rights of images thanks to a brilliant technology: Imatag.”
Patrick Chauvel, photographer: “I come to see if I will receive the price of the best photo taken in Mosul, drink the good wine of my friend Etienne. And show Visa to my son who is starting.”
Kathleen Grosset, journalist: “The exhibitions … beautiful pictures. Those of pollution in China are extraordinary.”
Yann Arthus Bertrand, photographer: “I’m here to show my film.”
Christophe Lovigny, journalist: “There was light, I went in and found some friends.”
Jean-Pierre Laffont, photographer: “With cousin and cousin, I came to present my last book.”
Jean-Michel Psaila, agency Abaca: “I am looking for new photographic talents.”
Laurent Van der Stock, photographer: “A lot of fun at every edition of Visa, and this year there is a big exhibition on Mosul, the fruit of long months of work.”
Jean-Francois Leroy, Visa for the Image: “I am here to save private Leroy, and if The Eye of Photography is not here, I do not give a damn.”
Cyril Drouhet, Figaro Magazine: “I come as a member of the jury.”
Pascal Maitre, photographer: “Well, as usual, for my exhibition and my projection, the routine…”
Visa pour l’Image Festival
September 2 to 17, 2017
Perpignan
France
http://www.visapourlimage.com/
