PROPOSAL...

It seemed necessary to me to return to the humanist photography, to place human beings front and center; I believe this to be the medium's most important purpose in its history. Yet this approach is curtailed by copyright laws, which rule out a very specific kind of photography. All these thoughts and beliefs have led me to put forward new types of pictures: no surroundings, and people who, down to the smallest scale, are nearly unrecognizable. Yet it remains reporteur photography: the surroundings are expunged, but the silhouettes and their shadows linger, ever true to reality. MICHEL FRAPIER