Vivre pour vivre - José Nicolas

Wednesday, February 5 at 2 pm

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Living for Living (1979-2019)

Humanity at the heart of historical, political, military and humanitarian events.

A selection of prints featuring 40 years of my travels as a photojournalist.

Dozens of countries crossed, from tarmac to runway, on land and at sea.

A journey punctuated above all by sharing.

Public figures, men, women, children...

Thousands of lives met along the way.

From chaos to hope, from tragedy to rebirth, the resurgence of - la joie de - vivre.

Biography

José NICOLAS has lived many lives. Born in 1956 in Casablanca, Morocco, he traveled throughout Africa, following his father's military postings. On his return to France, he enrolled at the Prytanée National Militaire and joined parachute units on operations in Lebanon, Chad, Central Africa...

He discovered photography in the field, working with war reporters covering military operations.

In 1982, in besieged West Beirut, he met Bernard Kouchner, who had just founded the "Médecins du Monde" association. José Nicolas offered him his services during a leave of absence. This meeting was to prove decisive for the future photographer's career. Seriously wounded during a mission in 1983, he definitively exchanged the "eye" of the rifle for that of the camera.

He then met the founder of the SIPA agency, who sent him back to the heart of international conflicts, this time "armed" with photographic equipment. From 1984 to 2014, he traveled the world, covering the humanitarian actions of the "French Doctors" in Lebanon, Kurdistan and Afghanistan, as well as the rescue of boat people in the China Sea.

A great traveler and instinctive adventurer, he alternates between "field missions" (civil war in Suriname, revolution in Romania, conflicts in Chad, Iran, Iraq, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, the Gulf War, Bosnia, Somalia, Rwanda...) and portraits of personalities: Sister Emmanuelle, Michel Portal, François Mitterrand, Jacques Chirac, Lionel Jospin, François Hollande, Bernard Kouchner, Jean François Deniau...

Now a freelance photographer, he devotes himself to his own series, publishes a number of books based on his archives, and continues his humanitarian work for NGOs (Haiti, Togo, Ghana...). His photographic works are exhibited at festivals, represented by galleries and have entered museum and private collections.

In 2019, he will create the Atelier/Galerie Taylor in Paris, a convivial showroom dedicated to photography, bringing together young image-lovers and discerning collectors. Exhibitions by established and emerging photographers are organized, from "argentique" to more contemporary processes. Vernissages, editorial releases, workshops, conferences, fairs and "off-site" exhibitions follow one another.

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