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How did you discover photography?
On a train, when I was 16, in the summer of 1986. I was going down to the south of France and I heard a voice announcing that in carriage number 14, there was a photography exhibition! It brought together works by Michel Journiac, Pierre Molinier, Gilbert Gormezano and Pierre Minot. Journiac is known for having done performances where he transformed his blood into pudding, Molinier for dressing as a woman, Minot and Gormezano for making portraits in the mud. You can imagine the impact this had on the teenager I was! For me, photography, until then, was limited to family images, in newspapers, on posters… There, I instantly understood that photography could be a mode of expression as such.
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