In Perpignan, Éric Bouvet is a happy man. He exhibits at the Visa pour l'image festival his forty years of photography in the "news". It was his 25-year-old daughter, Cerise, who had the brilliant idea of this retrospective.
"They put me everywhere, it's great!"
, he laughs, with his patterned shirt and his broad smile. One of his photos is on the cover of the flyers. We see an Afghan woman in a blue burqa wandering in the middle of a field of ruins. It was taken in Kabul in 2001. Terribly topical, twenty years later. He dreams of only one thing:
"to be in Afghanistan today".
Country where it was
"swung"
from his first years at the Gamma agency, which he joined in his twenties in the early 1980s. He went thirteen times.
Disguised as a moudjahidin, crossing borders in the snow, meeting in 1987 a certain Bin Laden, illustrious unknown at the time.
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In Afghanistan or elsewhere, he has traveled the world to bear witness through the image of the major events in history.
Funerals
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