With Promontories of Silence, Didier Goupy delivers an experience of the forest and the sensations it provides. The photographer spent 5 years working on this series, mainly in French forests. If this work is originally linked to his childhood, it’s the confinement of spring 2020 that definitively opens his eyes after 3 full months spent in the Retz forest photographing it daily.

” The very pictorial aspect of these images has a logical reason for being and has nothing to do with the idea of imitating painting.

I was born on the edge of the Évreux forest. In a baby carriage or stroller, I’m still only a few months old when I’m settled under the canopy. My first visual excitements are those of a baby who must be sensitive to the movement of colors above his head. At this age, nothing has a name yet, nothing is differentiated. Only color and movement appear together to me. Color is the question of painters before it is, later, that of certain photographers.

However, I’m not a painter and use photography, which captures the moment, highlights a particular, even crucial moment, a striking memory here very joyful and above all an emotion.”

See you on Tuesday September 27 from 6pm for a book signing with Didier Goupy!