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SoCultures November 2018
Culture Curators
France
Emmanuel Cherki
How do you get your best works? What are your inspirations?
I do not know what the best pictures are. Sometimes I am amazed by what others see
when showing them my work. Some pictures that I considered less successful were
much appreciated. Conversely, some that seemed interesting to me did not find
echoes. Another "non-coincidence”.....
Your photographs are mostly in the
shades of black and whites. Why do
you find these colours so
fascinating? Well! No doubt that
they are amazing captures.
There is a terrible dilemma between
black and white and colours. B/W is a
way of insisting on things or people, it
requires attention. It gives
a thoughtful image, out of
immediacy. Colour reflects the movement of the world. It gives the movement, not
that of the street or the event, but that of the thought of a "before" and an "after".
Your captures are around different aspects- architecture, street, minimalism,
portraits, sea, offbeat etc.. How is it different to capture these images technically?
The colour is fascinating in itself. When you look at a colour it makes you think,
imagine objects of the same colour and even feelings of the same colours. It disturbs
the image because it is image itself. There is no "refuge" in the black and white; the
obstacle is the meaning of the image under t
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