Photo-Souvenir
Benoit Grimalt
Poursuite Editions
French
Softcover
12 pages
150 x 210 mm
2012
ISBN 9782918960676
Benoît Grimalt imposes a game on himself: to reconstruct through drawing the last photograph of a film before its development. Several drawn attempts allow him to capture his doubts, hesitations, and omissions. If the photo fixes a situation, the drawing allows for adjustments: a slightly different framing, another position. The drawing thus shows what the image could have been a few moments later.
With this work, Benoît Grimalt questions the relationship between the image and memory. The photography contributes to the construction of this last one, with these images which deliver the testimony of forgotten moments. By resorting to drawing, he further refines the motifs he wishes to remember, leaving behind the superfluous and the inevitable dross. One day, a visitor told the artist that it was certainly “the image more than the photograph” that interested him. He was probably not wrong: through photography or drawing, Benoît Grimalt enriches above all a personal collection, an ideal album of images dedicated to beautiful things.
(Source: https://www.delpireandco.com/en/produit/photos-souvenirs/)
About the Artist
Born in 1975 and a graduate of the École des Gobelins in photography, Benoît Grimalt is the author of documentaries such as “Return to Genoa City,” which has won awards at several festivals such as the Directors’ Fortnight, and a book of drawings.
(Source: https://www.cotemagazine.com/en/photographs-by-Benoit-Grimalt)
About the Publisher
Poursuite is a french-based publisher directed by Benjamin Diguerher focused on photography and related topics.
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