It was at the Salon de l’Agriculture that I worked in a studio for the first time.
Never before had I done it.
It was the discovery of the tarp as a decoration that I fell madly in love with. I have dozens today.
What I call my homage to Irving Penn.
It is from this work at the Agricultural Show that this project on the French that I am now carrying out was born.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand