Les Anges du Caroux

Biographie

Yannick Cano is a photographer born in Sète in 1966. He currently lives in Valras plage and works in Serignan. He trained in photography by following the advice given to him by the professional documentary photography community and then by taking courses at the Mur Rouge - Espace photographique in Montpellier. Since 2021 he is a member of the Hans Lucas agency.
His first exhibition "Napolitano" is presented at the castle of Malves as part of the festival Fiction documentaire (Graph) and at the prison of Narbonne.

Présentation

Since I was a child, I have walked its hillsides, its plateau, its forests. It is much later that I became aware of the importance of this territory in the resistance to the Nazi occupation. My meeting with the commander "ROCH" and the stories of that time, literally teleported me to that period.

I fled from farms to hamlets, taking part in the maquis, sometimes as a sniper, sometimes as a member of the Bir Hakeim maquis, and sometimes as a survivor of the ambush at Fontjun.
I felt the cold, the hatred, the fear and the hunger.
I slept under the ferns on the ground, I was betrayed, wounded, shot.
I measured the value of my companions, their courage, their ardor, whatever their origins, their beliefs or their political convictions.
I measured the heroism of these women and men who chose Caroux rather than the Vichy government.