CERGY'S FACES
Everyone is talking about diversity, everyone says it's wealth, and Cergy-Pontoise in particular where 130 nationalities cohabit. The dream for a portraitist.
"The face is what forbids us to kill" Emmanuel Levinas.
An image worth more than long speeches, I decided to show this human diversity by photographing anonymous people who could be our neighbors, the shopkeeper we go to every day, a person who walks in the street that you look at and who looks at you, a smile sometimes too. I privilege the faces because they express the deep being, the black and white to go to the essentials and to catch the glance, because it is through him that the humans communicate: it is the portal of the soul.
It is no longer a question of photogeny, but of reflecting the beauty of the human race through its diversity. I am aware that the man is capable of the worst baseness but what I want to show is the infinite tenderness and the depth which it conceals.
The album "Cergy's Faces" became the fraternity's album. It includes nearly 1000 portraits to date but it continues to grow.
