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Raymond Depardon

I have a special relationship with photographer Raymond Depardon, not that I know the man personally but his work quite familiar to me over the past fifteen years, work as literary or photographic film. It is first and above all else a guy I like, it looks a bit like my father with his big blue eyes that never seem to lie. And at the same time, it is also the perfect opposite of the father figure in the sense that the place where he is the antithesis of romping ground of existence of my own father, and left to kill him, as well choose Carefully field of patricide. Having always been the dream that spoke more than reason, I chose to decamp from the age reaches to borrow the ways of blur and sharpness rather than too staked the "real world" - as it me-represented.

For my twenty years, a book that will sit it gives me a little more control of the photographer's work in the small system art, warmth that I put in place especially in my head. This is Wandering, a book dense, silent in the succession of his photographs but not stingy with explanation in his preface. This book amazes me quite, I still come back very often, how to wander round on a planet inhabited by more than six billion people? Where can I find a quest virgin? How to explore how discovered yet? Where are the Cartier, Columbus and Magellan of the XXI century? I like this book because it poses a philosophical question for préable and the questioning continues without being really exhausted after last page is turned. I like this book because it got too long deceived, it is a book of bed-ridden, maybe even bitterness or disappointment motivated. This book should not have to associate with a boy of twenty, he deceives the world. And that is how a photographer can look honestly and blue - and because he follows his own intimate questions - to hide a boy rough-hewn as the world is completely discover it.

Oddly or not, the Wandering Depardon has helped make me hesitating a camera in his hands, in any case it coincided with a period of fasting photographic images of friends, family and dog yes, but resume and shoot camera slung an image of a stranger ended about that time. And even Ackerman, Max Pam and other baradoudeurs failed to intercede at this time.

So when twenty excellent quarterly magazine published a long interview with Raymond Depardon, I once again want to understand this cornerstone of my aspirations through its words and explanations. I remember interviewee by Inter there are four or five years ago, I emailed a radio question nagging me: "Are you still wandering?" . The question did smile and he said that I was referring of course to a book he had done and not, had been a wandering path.

I was stupid is not it, to believe that an artist could ever stop creating its system of representation by submitting to the eyes of this very process ... I believed and I was stupid, but I still love this photographer and his work.