Let's talk less, but let's talk about me...
Marcel Gottlieb titled his editorial in “Fluide Glacial” this way. It’s my partners, both male and female conversation partners, primarily communication service managers or communication officers, who have expressed their need to feel the universe, the soul of the person, the photographer who will come to shoot your employees, your facilities. I trust them, which is why I’m going to talk about myself.
I will start, however, by talking about industrial photography and professional gestures, laboratories, controlled zones, production lines, or even clean rooms. Later on, I will talk about my journey that led me to be immensely passionate about imagery.
I am an industrial photographer because I am a humanist photographer. It’s the human aspect that interests me in this endeavor, as well as transformation: from heat to electricity, from kaolin to earthenware, from raw materials to makeup, medicines, elevators, painted profiles, valves, cables, joints… The list goes on.
Transformation, as I have just described, is the essence of Humanity, along with laughter too.
I have an asset that has always followed me and that I have developed in my profession as a social worker: non-judgment. I’m not talking about the superficial kindness overflowing on LinkedIn. I speak of the way to listen, to respond to both male and female interlocutors. I must clarify that it’s a continuous exercise, not a given. I have no ulterior motives, nor discomfort in front of a person with scars, without teeth, no condescension when I address someone cleaning the toilets, nor any particular deference in front of the superboss.
It’s ingrained, it shows, or rather it is felt, at least my interlocutors know it.
I’m not saying that everyone accepts the contract and says let’s go what do I have to do? Of course, many refuse, sometimes on principle, often in opposition to the employer, often in these two cases the phrase is as follows: sorry, it’s not against you.
I realize that I still haven’t talked about imagery, but at the same time, discussing framing, composition, light, depth of field is boring. After all, a field isn’t deep, it’s long and wide, okay, but not deep.