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photo exhibition "The West Indies at the library Rostrenen

October 5 to November 7, 2010, discover an exhibition in black and white. Street scenes of the West Indies.
Hours:
Monday and Friday from 16h to 18h30
Tuesday and Wednesday from 10am to 12pm and from 14h to 18h30
Saturday from 10am to 12pm and from 14 to 17
tel: 0296574205; Mail: mediathèque@rostrenen.com

These photos were taken in Martinique, Guadeloupe and Dominica. According to John Stuart Mills
, English philosopher: "The photograph is a brief complicity between foresight and luck." According to Paul Eluard, there is no chance, there are only by appointment. In this sense I am glad to have met Jean-Luc in my search for a site of exposure.

I also want to go elsewhere on the coast costarmoricain in other venues as we frequent usually around the conurbation Brieuc; to go inside the department and then, as no one does is prophet in his country ...

His silence before my pictures was an emotional moment.

attempt to understand my approach, I can say that the first common point between all these is to have photos taken with the camera even a tiny device, discreet, silent rangefinder.

Beyond this truism borrowed Serge TISSERON, these photos are simply imposed on me. I do not know if they seduce or surprise. The world often gives me a blurry vision of things, but when I look in the viewfinder, everything appears clear. I see all mankind scrolling. I leave the scene is set up and operate the aesthetic challenge of the trip.

Some pictures I took did not need to be developed or even watched. The order taker that I am sometimes only develops the power to ...

able to show a picture, talk about, talk to are always trying to share a process of symbolization, but which one? The pictures that show an inability to symbolize a situation, assimilate, will never be disclosed.

When shooting confinement in the darkroom is a way to preserve intact the components not assimilated what we saw at the moment and later make possible the assimilation of the situation and those who have brought us here.

Why did you choose these photos? I could show others. This choice was imposed on me again in a staging that does not tell the story really just a succession of still images arranged over the emotions and memories. However, I am well aware of them show a symbolization of the multicultural society, our society is mixed French, as I often think of our fellow Indians to Guyana in the depths of the Amazon rainforest after rereading Tristes Tropiques by Claude Levi Strauss.

In conclusion, I express the wish to expose these pictures and why not the West Indies in Morne Rouge, FDF

... Obviously I'll have to find funding:

- ; to scan and make these prints on other media more resistant to tropical humidity and why not a larger size for outdoor exposure?

- send and organize a trip for this event.

This exhibition could be an illustration of the Caribbean as happy as could again Haiti. (I do not prejudge the absence of moments of happiness for Haitians even in the depths of their material and moral distress).

In all modesty, if this show could be a common thread to continue the "liannage" between Rostenen and Morne Rouge, Côtes d'Armor et la Caraïbe, dont Haïti qui pourrait elle aussi redevenir heureuse. Dans les « Petites Antilles », entre les deux,  la Martinique est une base avancée, comme un pont entre ici et là bas.

Merci à M. Le Maire d’avoir accepter cette expo en ce lieu.

Merci à Ange HERVIOU de sa présence et de ses encouragements.

Merci à vous tous de vous êtes déplacés ici, vote présence m’honore et m’encourage à poursuivre. En particulier les jeunes et leur projet d'activité photo. La plus belle remarque de leur part est de m'avoir demandé comment je pouvais m'effacer landscape has to do to get those shots.

VERDE Thanks to Michel, who died today, I came into contact Michael by combining ART'Image Plérin it was he who encouraged me in the exercise of the street scene, and Danielle His wife, for his uncompromising criticism. According to the established formula of Michel "is a framing bias by the author not negotiable." Finally thank you to Sylvie that supports all the angst of waiting for the right light.

Yvon Royer