Magnum photographer Guy Le Querrec produced more than five thousand photos in Brittany between 1965 and 1980. This month, three exhibitions in Brest, Lannion, and Lorient and a book are paying tribute to this long-term work.
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Guy Le Querrec’s Chinese Gesture
Guy Le Querrec’s Chinese Gesture – The Eye of Photography Magazine
Breton né à Paris en 1941, vétéran de Magnum Photos depuis quarante-deux ans, Guy Le Querrec a trois amours dans sa vie. La photographie est évidemment sa
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A Breton born in Paris in 1941, a Magnum veteran for the past 42 years, Guy Le Querrec has three loves. Photography is his greatest passion, but he also has an innate talent as a teacher, which was detected by Marc Riboud. It was Riboud who asked him to create a workshop at the Arles Photo Festival in 1976. His subsequent master classes have trained many amateur and professional photographers alike including Patrick Zachmann (another Magnum member). This exhibition for Arles + Jimei arrives at the 30th anniversary of his Arles workshop in China, which he conducted in Fujian in Xiamen and Quanzhou, along with eight trainees from the Arles Festival in 1988. His second love is his “country” of origin, Brittany, where he has photographed relentlessly over the years. And third, as a music lover, he is passionate (and knowledgeable) about jazz.
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Photographer Guy Le Querrec Has Captured France’s Strange Beauty Through the Decades | VICE | United States
Photographer Guy Le Querrec Has Captured France’s Strange Beauty Through the Decades
The Magnum photographer on being true to your roots and what makes a good photograph.
via Vice: http://www.vice.com/read/magnum-photos-guy-le-querrec-876
One thing that really makes French photographer Guy Le Querrec’s photos stand out is his always fresh perspective. “I guide my eye so as to have the feeling of seeing things for the first and last time,” he told me. “It comes from a place of intense curiosity and a desire to trigger the memory. I can’t handle the idea of forgetting something I have seen.”