SOrtons clichés, or rather enter his family, imbued with great delicacy, that which he expresses in his travel diaries around the world. Jules-Édouard Moustic is a photo enthusiast. His first aircraft, his parents offered him when he was 12 years old, an “instamatic” with which he took thousands of shots to the point of wanting to do his job by attending a specialized school. “A little voice said to me: don’t do that, keep the photo as a passion, a pleasure, so as not to disgust you, and when I think about it, I did well,” says Christian bordered by his real name.
Street people
The latter presents his travel photos in this exhibition. The United States, of course, but also Japan. “I love to make rides, it is done in sporting photography, and there, it is a couple that leaves a store in Tokyo. I use my device a bit like a brush, I am the rhythm of my subjects and this gives a traces effect. His passion for Japan was born during the shooting of a film by Patrick Braoudé presented at the Yokohama French Film Festival. Japanese culture inspires him very regular stays to recharge his batteries. “Gentile, elegant, cultivated people, carrying beautiful values. My family shares them. »»
“My nature leads me to fall more easily in love with street people than people of cinema”
“My nature leads me to fall more easily in love with the people of the street than of the cinema people, an environment that, contrary to popular belief, I know little. I recognize it, a fairly short career in this register… ”Jules-Édouard Moustic stops in front of one of his shots of the famous photographer Bettina Rheims. He talks about it with the emotion of an instantaneous impulse of love for the beauty of the photographer and not for the model she and were supposed to photograph, sent in the end of the 90s, by the Canal+ teams to prepare a pilot. His talent as a photographer was known on the channel. You should not forget its perpetual escapades.
Friend Benoît Delépine
The Hit Getariar (he has lived in the village for years, editor’s note) is constantly working. It is not surprising to meet, the evening of the inauguration of his exhibition, his unwavering Acolyte, Benoît Delépine, who feels here at his home to announce the preview of his next film at the Cinema of Guéthary.
Never one without the other. Benoît Delépine came to support his acolyte for the inauguration of his exhibition.
Philippe Capy
On this almost family evening, we counted beyond the faithful friends of the duo, already many red lozenges of sales under the photos, a sign that his work seduces. One of them, taken in Ginza, a posh district of Tokyo, is straight out of the universe of Edward Hopper and more precisely from the emblematic “Nighthawks”. Who would have believed it? The one who claims that “the Gromanche, we do nothing, like big sleeves …” also makes very beautiful photos, the “Lendi, Môrdi, Credi, Joudi, Dredi and Sadi …”.
To discover until August 26 at the little gallery of the Pottery of Guéthary, 49 avenue Harispe.