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SoCultures November 2018
Culture Curators
France
Emmanuel Cherki
Who is your favourite pictures from your collection and why? Also name a few
from your award winning photographs as well
It is very important to try all photography styles. I absolutely do not want to lock
myself into a genre. I receive awards in all categories and it is very important for
me. All the categories are part of a photographic process that I like to borrow.
What are the differences between black/white and colourful pictures; you kind of
capture your own beliefs, attitude for life in them?
The photo testifies to my vagabond spirit. I like this idea of being a gypsy in the
world. By making photos I do not try to freeze events but rather offer crossroads for
those who live them. It an alert to what seems to me to be a non-coincidence between
the idea and the image that interests me. For that you have to roam here and
elsewhere. Being a stranger everywhere, be amazed all the time. In this sense,
Koudelka's work is essential for me. In his life, as in these images, he is travelling.
Your idea of cultures and also your vision of appreciating each other’s cultures to
create global inclusivity.
I would like to add what should have been the beginning of my reflection. The photo
cannot stop the "living", cannot freeze it. The photo does not say anything about
what's going on, happened or will happen. It is a bifurcation, it opens other
possibilities. It does not offer solutions but poses questions and problems --Aesthetic,
moral, political and social! It is a revealing accident of a "not everything goes without
saying”....
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