La "Photo du siècle" - The idea and the concretization
The principle is simple: bringing together, the time of a photo, all the inhabitants of a village,
everyone being seized, who in their work clothes, which displaying their function, which
with her "Chapeau de Conscrit", which his brotherhood cape or his bugle...
The photographer is Marie-Jo Magnière, of the association "L'Arbre à l'Image" by Semur-en-Auxois
which has been traveling France from village to village since 1999,
and she come back with her photographic room, ten or twenty years later, stopping in the same villages.
Group photography is all a know-how !! A real job !!
Not easy to find all these people dressing up for this occasion. And how to argue, and
remind the kids not to run everywhere, and "how do you do? ". And during this time,
time goes on, the sun too, and éwho wants to put himself in the front row ?" ... Composing the photo is not easy ...
The resulting color panoramic photo brings in this snapshot of the life of a
village the touch of humanity that cannot have a demographic statistic and
everyone can say "well, I was there, you see ..."
