{"id":385,"date":"2014-02-23T20:45:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T19:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrisglaudel.com\/a-mon-propos\/?lang=en"},"modified":"2025-09-08T23:06:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T22:06:17","slug":"a-mon-propos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisglaudel.com\/en\/a-mon-propos\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_section et_pb_section_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_section_regular et_block_section\" data-padding=\"0|0px|0px|0px\" >\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_row et_pb_row_0 et_pb_equal_columns et_pb_gutters3  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_block_row\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_column_1_2 et_pb_column et_pb_column_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_block_column\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_text et_pb_text_0  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_dark\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><h3>About Me<\/h3><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_text et_pb_text_1  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p>About RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES Paris-Berlin \u00a0:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/philippecalandre.com\/about\/\">PHILIPPE CALANDRE BIOGRAPHY<\/a> : <a href=\"https:\/\/philippecalandre.com\/about\/\">https:\/\/philippecalandre.com\/about\/<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_text et_pb_text_2  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><h1>Bio<\/h1>\n<p>To the question asked recently:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\"what have you done with photography?\"<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I answered :<\/p>\n<p>The most appropriate for me would be to use a parabolic image:<br \/>\nPhotography has been my faithful companion for over thirty years!<br \/>\nHow to describe what I did with photographic art since Arles ? When the day was young, we would leave this school coming out of the town hall, arm in arm, under the bright full sun, as good as it gets, descending the stairs of reality.<\/p>\n<p>So I spend my life with my chosen companion, where every day is an ambiguous relationship. This daily attachment changes depending on mood and it plays with me. This bond with her and the light reminds me the emotion of first love, love at first sight, or the weariness felt in the company of my Melancholy whore, or again feeling this very strong emotion which goes against reason.<\/p>\n<p>I've devoted myself to photography, the concubine of my eyes, I live by the daily hope that she provides me, suggesting that each new day the sun makes, she will enable us to design together my very best photographs. I allow her to become a versatile agent and thereby I turn into a hard worker of the image, to make myself sculpt naturally and shape reality to match the imagination of my ideas.<br \/>\nAs a fertile muse, she offers me her body to embrace with a picture, hug with a smile, whatever I will operate on. Her lips speak on my behalf to my fellow man to persuade my neighbor to be on the next shot.<\/p>\n<p>As I inform through a landscape or a face, my beloved mistress lets me fondle her delicate skin delightful to the touch, capable of overcoming wounds and scars, the marks of my subjects. I live with one who holds the keys to the gates of the past and pronouncing her name, opens the gates to the present, usually inaccessible to ordinary eyes.<\/p>\n<p>I find solace when it happens that my tragic muse betrayed me with unfaithful behavior with another manipulator of light, more conspicuous and obvious. Whatever the intrigue on how she humiliated me, I know she will come back to me, heal me and - again and again - will give pleasure to me and my rival, fill my delight to look at works of light, my fickle lady.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than use the nostalgic past in dealing with this matter by reading it, I'd rather address it like this: What am I doing with photography today? And yet I'd rather tell you what photography has done for me. But really, what I have committed with photography, the images that I have conceived with her gives the best answer to this delicate question.<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"et_pb_button_module_wrapper et_pb_button_0_wrapper  et_pb_module \">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"et_pb_button et_d4_element et_pb_button_0 et_hover_enabled et_pb_bg_layout_dark et_block_module\" href=\"https:\/\/digipicture.com\/contact\">Contact Christophe<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_column_1_2 et_pb_column et_pb_column_1  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et-last-child et_block_column\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_image et_pb_image_0 et_animated et-waypoint\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"et_pb_image_wrap has-box-shadow-overlay\"><div class=\"box-shadow-overlay\"><\/div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1252\" height=\"1800\" 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text_size=\"small\"]Qu'avez-vous fait de la photographie ?[\/quote]<\/p><p>J'ai r\u00e9pondu :<\/p><p>Le plus appropri\u00e9 pour moi serait d\u2019utiliser une image :<br \/>La photographie est ma seule fid\u00e8le compagne depuis plus de trente ans!<br \/>Sortir de l'\u00e9cole d'Arles fut comme sortir d\u2019une mairie bras dessus bras dessous, en plein soleil, pour le meilleur et pour le pire.<\/p><p>Je passe donc ma vie en sa compagnie, o\u00f9 chaque jour est une relation ambigu\u00eb. Cet attachement quotidien change en fonction de l\u2019humeur et se joue de moi. Cette fr\u00e9quentation d\u2019avec elle et la lumi\u00e8re m\u2019\u00e9voque soit la fougue des premiers \u00e9mois, ou la lassitude \u00e9prouv\u00e9e face \u00e0 ma putain triste, soit encore cette \u00e9motion tr\u00e8s forte qui va \u00e0 l'encontre de la raison.<\/p><p>J\u2019aime m\u2019adonner \u00e0 la photographie, concubine de mon regard, Je vis de l\u2019espoir qu\u2019elle nourrit en me sugg\u00e9rant chaque nouveau jour que fait le soleil, de concevoir ensemble la meilleure de mes photographies. Je la laisse se muer en agent versatile et par l\u00e0 m\u00eame me grimer en bon ouvrier de l\u2019image pour me porter naturellement \u00e0 sculpter et fa\u00e7onner le r\u00e9el \u00e0 l\u2019imaginaire de mes id\u00e9es.<br \/>En muse fertile, elle m\u2019offre son corps pour saluer d\u2019une image, enlacer d\u2019un sourire ce, celui ou celle que je vais op\u00e9rer. Je laisse sa bouche parler en mon nom \u00e0 mon semblable pour le convaincre d\u2019\u00eatre mon prochain photographi\u00e9.<\/p><p>Que je renseigne un paysage ou un visage, mon amante ma\u00eetresse me laisse caresser son corps \u00e0 l'\u00e9piderme palpitant, enclin \u00e0 restituer les blessures et les cicatrices, les empreintes de mes sujets. Je vis avec celle qui d\u00e9tient les clefs des portes du pass\u00e9 et prononcer son nom m\u2019ouvre celles du pr\u00e9sent, habituellement inaccessibles pour le commun des regards.<\/p><p>Je trouve le r\u00e9confort de remplir avec honneur les seconds rangs selon Boileau quand il advient que mon \u00e9g\u00e9rie tragique me soit infid\u00e8le avec un autre, plus ostensible et manifeste. Peu importe ses intrigues pour m'humilier, je sais qu\u2019elle me reviendra et me donnera - encore et encore - plaisir \u00e0 voir ainsi qu\u2019\u00e0 l\u2019autre qui m\u2019a ravi pendant ce moment d\u00e9cisif, ma garce volage.<\/p><p>Plut\u00f4t que de conjuguer au pass\u00e9 nostalgique comme j\u2019ai per\u00e7u la question en la lisant, Je pr\u00e9f\u00e9rerai aborder cette phrase au pr\u00e9sent: Que fais-je de la photographie ? Et plut\u00f4t encore vous dire ce que la photographie a fait de moi. Mais vraiment, ce que j\u2019ai commis avec la photographie, ce sont les images que je con\u00e7ois avec elle et qui donnent le mieux la r\u00e9plique \u00e0 l\u2019interrogation pos\u00e9e.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>To the question asked recently:<\/p><p>[quote text_size=\"small\"]What have you done with photography ?[\/quote]<\/p><p>I answered\u00a0:<\/p><p>How to describe what I did with photographic art since Arles ?<br \/>The most appropriate for me would be to use a parabolic image:<br \/>Photography has been my faithful companion for over thirty years! When the day was young, we would leave this school coming out of the town hall, arm in arm, under the bright full sun, as good as it gets, descending the stairs of reality.<\/p><p>So I spend my life with my chosen companion, where every day is an ambiguous relationship. This daily attachment changes depending on mood and it plays with me. This bond with her and the light reminds me the emotion of first love, love at first sight, or the weariness felt in the company of my Melancholy whore, or again feeling this very strong emotion which goes against reason.<br \/>I've devoted myself to photography, the concubine of my eyes, I live by the daily hope that she provides me, suggesting that each new day the sun makes, she will enable us to design together my very best photographs. I allow her to become a versatile agent and thereby I turn into a hard worker of the image, to make myself sculpt naturally and shape reality to match the imagination of my ideas.<\/p><p>As a fertile muse, she offers me her body to embrace with a picture, hug with a smile, whatever I will operate on.<br \/>Her lips speak on my behalf to my fellow man to persuade my neighbor to be on the next shot. As I inform through a landscape or a face, my beloved mistress lets me fondle her delicate skin delightful to the touch, capable of overcoming wounds and scars, the marks of my subjects. I live with one who holds the keys to the gates of the past and pronouncing her name, opens the gates to the present, usually inaccessible to ordinary eyes.<\/p><p>I find solace when it happens that my tragic muse betrayed me with unfaithful behavior with another manipulator of light, more conspicuous and obvious. Whatever the intrigue on how she humiliated me, I know she will come back to me, heal me and - again and again - will give pleasure to me and my rival, fill my delight to look at works of light, my fickle lady.<\/p><p>Rather than use the nostalgic past in dealing with this matter by reading it, I'd rather address it like this: What am I doing with photography today? And yet I'd rather tell you what photography has done for me. But really, what I have committed with photography, the images that I have conceived with her gives the best answer to this delicate question.<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-385","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisglaudel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisglaudel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisglaudel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisglaudel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisglaudel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisglaudel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249862,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisglaudel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/385\/revisions\/249862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisglaudel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}