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Gregori Jeannette france
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Mike, Day by Day
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entry description
By choosing to put Mike in the light, some personal guidance was provided to allow him to explore his creativity through poetic scenes, remote from the real world. This series of photographs calls for the encounter with the Other and the exploration of his thoughts as well as an immersion in vaporous and equivocal atmospheres exacerbated by chiaroscuro. Mike was part of the world of the invisible, turning the light to him in a series of intimate portraits proved a challenge to tame his indocile character and allow him to overcome his shyness. Inspired by the moonlight, he used to spend his nights smoking along the Marne-Rhine canal, writing frantically and uninterruptedly in large notebooks. Coming from the housing project of the Marais, near Strasbourg, prey to boredom and fighting the demons of addiction, he had found his outlet in writing rap lyrics that he interpreted with passion. By investing in this series of photographs, he wished to show his evolution: that of a young man at the dawn of his thirty years, inactive, without social recognition, who by developing his interest in arts and creativity, began to reconcile with himself and give meaning to his daily life. By revisiting the pictorial arts of Théodore Géricault, Caravaggio or the Mannerist and Tenebrist painters, Mike shows us his initiatory journey towards the knowledge of arts and the desire to rise spiritually. Writing is also an endless thread that leads to resilience. By sublimating his sufferings, transforming them into wonderful and fascinating experiences in his creative imagination, he simply strives to make them tolerable in reality.about the photographer
Jeannette Gregori was born in 1967 and now lives in Strasbourg, France. She studied photography at the University of Fine Arts, Indiana, in the US and the School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg. Chance ad curiosity led to her getting to know a group of Romai families settled along a departmental road in Alsace, France in the summer of 2009. Her work since has sought to depict the engaging characters she came to know from these families and the humanity she saw in these people in the face of prejudices. Today, if she remains attached to this cause, she gradually opens to other society topics over the course of her experiences. Photography allows her to advocate children and women's rights or provide social guidance. Jeannette Gregori teaches photography in a high school and regularly intervenes with a public of young students all over France, to bring them to produce photographic works associated with creative writing.back to gallery
