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Gregori Jeannette france
title
Mike, Day by Day
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entry description
The long-term artistic collaboration with Mike was made difficult by his unstable psychological profile and his precarious social and cultural environments. However, the progress made in his personal journey and the outcome in terms of arts and mutual humanity shared in this project were rewarding. Coming from a neighborhood near Strasbourg, unemployed, living on the minimum income benefit, having quit drinking alcohol for 10 months, his only occupation was to write rap lyrics that he passionately interpreted. By investing himself on a regular basis in this portrait series, he wanted to show his evolution, that of a thirty-year-old, inactive man of the neighborhood who got gradually interested in arts and who began to take his life in his own hands. His artistic nature led him to portray himself showing his idleness, his feeling of resentment but also his more poetic temperament, his passion for nature and writing. As a result of this year-long artistic work, Mike actually took action to change his life and started looking for an apartment and a job.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
