Yan Morvan is a great photographer. The only problem is that’s he’s unbearable. But behind his endless outrages and provocations lies an unusually cultured man, a genuine tenderness, and the authentic vision of a journalist and photojournalist. Human beings, the other, fascinates him. He is never merely a witness to what he photographs; he is also a part of it. Look at L’oeil du Journal, which he produced for more than a year. He gave the genre a new life. Look at his battlefields, this colossal work of memory which he started three years ago using his own money. He tells you the story of these battles in detail. Today he has almost 150 of them.
Look at the Gangs Story, his most recent book. For the past 35 years, he has photographed the fringes of society which he finds so fascinating. Over these 279 pages and 140 photographs, you see the evolution of our society, from the white greasers of the 1970s to today’s uprooted immigrants. He didn’t just take a few short trips and snap a few pictures here and there. No, he went week after week, month after month, year after year, and he came back with stories. Not all of them are easy to hear.
Jean-Jacques Naudet
Gangs Story
Photographs by : Yan Morvan
Texts by : Kizo
La Manufacture de livres Edition
EAN : 9782358870498
49€
