Gilles Perrin Where are we going? Series in the North of France MOCAH, Houston (Tx) USA, 2006
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Artist statement by Gilles Perrin for exhibition at MOCAH, Houston (Tx) USA, 2006 Every photographer must feel responsible for what he produces. (Raymond Depardon, interview in Le Monde, September, 1997) As a photographer and a responsible human, my work is to make photographs, and I want to be a witness to the condition of the world. I do documentary and social photography in the tradition of August Sander, Paul Strand, Dorothea Lange or Walker Evans. I try to show a certain reality which matches my vision and my emotions. This work is a conscious construction intended to be far from ordinary photography. I am a photographer of the human heritage in all of its forms and I try to create a significant vision of my environment. Before the multitude of images which surround us, I want my work to be seen as the opposite of easy aesthestism. Easy to read and superficia, as well as being photographic truism. My photos of landscapes or my portraits are observations of the world around me before it disappears. I don’t try to make either natural or " pretty " photos, or produce images which flatter my subjects. Most of all, I try to make them exist in their complexity and to render them " present " through my photography. In Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America, I wanted to produce images in which the effect of style and anecdote have no importance. I want to show the inside of someone rather than the outside. I don’t pray to the great god of photographic authenticity, but rather, I try to keep an " arm’s distance " from the subjects I choose to photograph. Simplicity and subjectivity are the tools which allow me to see. I photograph and fix the reality of my encounter with human prevalence on the earth. My goal is to make the spectators of my images look at themselves. I leave it to them to look or t to look away. Gilles Perrin © January 2006 If you have questions, please contact Gilles Perrin or Nicole Ewenczyk 4 terrasse du Parc Atelier 1 75019 Paris France E mail : gilles.perrin17@wanadoo.fr