Luc Delahaye
[Photographer, b. 1962, Tours, France, lives in Paris.]
I am cold and detached, sufficiently invisible because sufficiently insignificant, and that is how I arrive at a full presence to things, and a simple and direct relation to the real. That idea, in my work, is central.
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The denunciation of suffering by photography has replaced the religious justification of suffering in painting. Denunciation is a function of photojournalism, and in itself that’s a step in the right direction.
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About ten years ago I asked myself extremely simple questions: What is photography? What is a camera exactly? What happens when it is left on its own?
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