A ‘legal’ Guianese canoe, jump crossing. Oyapock River,
April 2015 © Christophe Gin for the Fondation Carmignac
Trois-Sauts, January 2015
© Christophe Gin for the Fondation Carmignac
Illegal service station on the Surinamese bank of the Maroni,
June 2015 © Christophe Gin for the Fondation Carmignac
An exhibition dedicated to Christophe Gin, 6th Laureate of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award, on view from 6 July to 6 November at the Hôtel de Montfaucon in Avignon, is the fruit of a unique partnership with the Lambert Collection and the Fondation Carmignac.
The Fondation Carmignac aims to support and promote
works of investigative photojournalism documenting areas often
under represented in mainstream news coverage.
The jury for the 6th edition,
chaired by Christophe Deloire, Secretary General of Reporters Without
Borders, chose Christophe Gin as the 2014 laureate of
the Carmignac Photojournalism Award.
Gin spent five months exploring the
landscapes of Guiana, from border regions to the most remote Amerindian
villages, where soldiers mingle with gold prospectors and exploited
immigrant workers, and where local population is forced to integrate
republican concepts. His photography bears witness to the reality of
life in a land full of contrasts, far from the caricatures often
presented through the mainstream press.
CHRISTOPHE GIN
The Collection Lambert en Avignon
5 rue Violette - 84 000 Avignon
3 July - 6 November 2016.
Tuesday to Sunday 11am to 6pm
Every day in July and August 11am to 7pm
Christophe
Gin was born in 1965 in Nevers. A self-taught photographer, he started
his career in the early 1990s, with the photo report Nathalie conduite de pauvreté
(Nathalie: Conduct of Poverty, 1994-2001), which was shot behind closed
doors and explored the inner workings of misery by focusing on
Nathalie, who agreed to have her daily life photographed for seven
years. The method is minimalist, getting as close to the protagonist as
possible, with the photographer disappearing to give the audience a
better view of the subject.
Following
this work, Christophe Gin wanted to avoid being trapped in a specific
genre, and felt the need to discover new horizons, which led him to
explore French Guiana for the first time in 2001. Encountering and
understanding this society would be a long and arduous process, taking
the photographer to Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia and Suriname. A second
series came out of it: Le Pont des Illusions (The Bridge of Illusions, 2002-2014).
His work has been
the subject of numerous exhibitions, inlcuding Rencontres
Photographiques de Guyane in the capital Cayenne, the Galerie Fait et
Cause in Paris, at Shenyang (China), the China International Photo
Festival in Lianzhou, the Visa pour l’Image event in Perpignan and
PhotoEspaña.
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