In Arles, in the south of France, the International Meetings of Photography continue until September 25. Spotlight today on the work of a written press journalist who is also a photographer: Julien Gester. His exhibition is somewhat mysteriously entitled: “This end of the world will have given us beautiful sunsets all the same”, according to the eponymous book published by Actes Sud.
Daily readers Release know Julien Gester, the newspaper’s current correspondent in New York and who has long covered cultural news for this medium. His photos are constructed like paintings, and they are teeming with details that open the door to all interpretations. With him, we are here in Asia, in Africa, in North and South America, in Europe… All this we guess, because no caption accompanies these photos linked together by large colored tape.
” If I told you that such an image was taken in such a country at such a time, explains Julien Gester, that would already be locking him up in a story that would otherwise be necessarily incomplete. The images that I fix photographically are images that interest me, because they contain the possibility of fiction. »
Julien Gester’s photos respond to each other mysteriously, even if they have no connection between them. Like this couple conversing on a train facing the sea, or these Asian children playing billiards. Or this pensive man sitting in the middle of dozens of wooden mannequins. Each image is bathed in golden light; it tells its own story and is the pretext for a multitude of possible interpretations and fictions. Decidedly very far from news photography.
View of the exhibition “This end of the world will still have given us beautiful sunsets”, by Julien Gester, at the Rencontres internationales de la photographie in Arles
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