PROMONTOIRES DU SILENCE - Didier Goupy

See you on Tuesday, September 27 from 6 p.m. for a book signing with Didier Goupy!

With Promontoires du silence, Didier Goupy gives us an experience of the forest and the sensations it provides. The photographer spent 5 years working on this series, mainly in French forests. Although this work is originally linked to his childhood, it was the confinement of spring 2020 that finally opened his eyes after 3 full months spent in the Retz forest, photographing it on a daily basis.

“The very pictorial aspect of these images has a logical raison d’être 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 a question for painters before it becomes, later on, a question for certain photographers.