Hello there!
Just these few lines to introduce myself...
Well, I am French and moved 5 years ago near Philadelphia for job reason. I am 47 and started photography almost 25 years ago.
For several years, I gave a hand to a community art gallery focused mainly on photography. There, I worked on several exhibitions, some from well-known photographers (Duane Michals, Mario Giacomelli, Toni Catany, Irina Ionesco, Arno Rafael Minkkinen) and less famous ones (Danilo Sartoni, Marc le Mene, Gian Marco Agazzi).
I shoot exclusively black & white film in both 35mm and medium format. As I currently am in a temporary location, I stopped making prints as I don't have any convenient location to install the lab. I should find a solution soon... even if I am a poor printer!
My personal tastes are rather classical. Henri Cartier Bresson comes in mind but I also appreciate Raymond Depardon, Werner Bishof or Josef Koudelka among many others... I also enjoy pictures from present photographers like Masao Yamamoto or Hiroshi Watanabe.
The last exhibition I saw was about Weegee. I already knew the pictures but was rather disappointed by the prints rendering; hanging was not optimal (rooms were way too dark) which might be part of the explanation.
The last book I read was a short biography of Evgueni Khaldei with quite a lot of pictures: A marvelous account of the (fortunately) bygone days of USSR.
You certainly noticed that I don't speak so much about gear as I am more interested by who is behind and in front of the camera than the camera itself. In fact, I withdrew from some forums when I noticed that people were driven by self-congratulations and were much more interested by alleged lens resolution than by their pictures. I am not against gear forum but it has to be driven by knowledgeable people who know what they are talking about, not fueling gossip from uninspiring 800*600 pictures...
Talk to you soon!
Nico
Just these few lines to introduce myself...
Well, I am French and moved 5 years ago near Philadelphia for job reason. I am 47 and started photography almost 25 years ago.
For several years, I gave a hand to a community art gallery focused mainly on photography. There, I worked on several exhibitions, some from well-known photographers (Duane Michals, Mario Giacomelli, Toni Catany, Irina Ionesco, Arno Rafael Minkkinen) and less famous ones (Danilo Sartoni, Marc le Mene, Gian Marco Agazzi).
I shoot exclusively black & white film in both 35mm and medium format. As I currently am in a temporary location, I stopped making prints as I don't have any convenient location to install the lab. I should find a solution soon... even if I am a poor printer!
My personal tastes are rather classical. Henri Cartier Bresson comes in mind but I also appreciate Raymond Depardon, Werner Bishof or Josef Koudelka among many others... I also enjoy pictures from present photographers like Masao Yamamoto or Hiroshi Watanabe.
The last exhibition I saw was about Weegee. I already knew the pictures but was rather disappointed by the prints rendering; hanging was not optimal (rooms were way too dark) which might be part of the explanation.
The last book I read was a short biography of Evgueni Khaldei with quite a lot of pictures: A marvelous account of the (fortunately) bygone days of USSR.
You certainly noticed that I don't speak so much about gear as I am more interested by who is behind and in front of the camera than the camera itself. In fact, I withdrew from some forums when I noticed that people were driven by self-congratulations and were much more interested by alleged lens resolution than by their pictures. I am not against gear forum but it has to be driven by knowledgeable people who know what they are talking about, not fueling gossip from uninspiring 800*600 pictures...
Talk to you soon!
Nico
