JEAN MICHEL VERDAN

France

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Dating my interest in photography is practically unanswered. I remember a photo where I look smiling at an enlarger. I was 7 or 8 years old, it was just fun to be photographed. I remember the family-like attitude that each of us exploited, since there was no retardant. I was about fifteen years old then. I remember buying my first serious camera with my first salary. It was the end of the 70s.

At 69 years old, I have practically gone through half a century of the history of photography. Nurtured in humanism, my beginnings focused on technique and the search for the 'beautiful' image were not enough.

Discover history, discover what one can «say» with the photo, do not remain closed to a photograph that one does not understand. In two centuries, photography has crossed many currents, all worthy of interest to understand it and make it understood.

And after!...
I’m still looking...