The publishing house KnowWare is releasing its first collection of photography books with Voir naître le talent. This new collection aims to present the work of promising young French photographers. The first two titles (available in bilingual French-English editions) are Rêvalités by Julie de Waroquier and En attendant le facteur by Alain Laboile, available in bookstores starting November 14.
• «Dreamalities » Julie de Waroquier
I didn’t sleep well last night. My dream didn’t work. I had planned to leave the lands of rationality in order to drown myself into a cloud. But I ended up sinking deep down inside me to be washed up in front of the realities that we usually try to switch off when the night comes. The kind of realities that we even try to smother, so that it doesn’t rekindle the following morning. Finally, in the darkness of a night without stars, rocked by this premonitory sinking, I couldn’t do anything but stare at the world as it appears to us in broad daylight. It’s striking how the most inspired dreamers are caught by reality and relentlessly enrolled in its sad truth.
Unless. Unless the battle lasts by taking place in an unsuspected impetuous mind. That of Julie de Waroquier was precisely such a suitable loam for an insatiable duality. Chimeras and realities were quite aware of that when they decided to take up residence together. And still nowadays every won victory has to infringe the rule of the implicit parlay.
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When we close this picture book, the obviousness doesn’t pretend. Julie de Waroquier definitely isn’t done tracking her fears. And fortunately, a few splinters won’t be enough to stop her in her quest. Besides, when you take a closer look, her photographs reveal the powerful desire that deep down we have to keep the world’s contradictions under control and to regularly caress the gentle dream that life is more beautiful than it seems to be.
Among all the illusions that fill the pages of this book with life, this one is undoubtedly the most realistic.
Gérald Vidamment
ISBN : 978-2-35564-094-0
EAN : 9782355640940
63 photographs • 100 pages • Format : 27 x 25 cm
33 €
Limited Edition : book signed, numbered and print 22 x 14,5 cm. 200 ex. 60 €
Waiting for the Postman » – Alain Laboile
My Dear Eva,
lt’s been a long lime slnce l’ve taken a moment to wrlle to you. Ten yeors, maybe more.
I locked time, but I wanted to. I had sa many stories ta tell you. That’s precisely one of these storles that prompts me today to take back my pen to share it with you.
Since 2007 l’ve been following the peregrinations of a family of six children, the Laboiles, through their photographic album. Il look shape, year alter year, under the eyes of thousands of connected people. Very few of them have met the main characters, but as time goes by they all seem convinced they know them well. Really. the Internet will never stop surprlslng me.
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Alain, the father, ls the one who strlves to collect the plctures of the family album.
When you enter his photographic world, you quickly understand that his eyes must have been helped by a laithlul partner slnce the begnnlng. At first didn’t want to see what was abvious. But as time goes by, I ended up penetratlng his secret: Alan photographs with his ears. He listens to life.
Gérald Vidamment
ISBN : 978-2-35564-093-3
EAN : 9782355640933
80 photographs • 100 pages • Format : 27 x 25 cm
33 €
Limited Edition : book signed, numbered and print 19 x 19 cm. 200 ex. 60 €
