In regards to

The photographs presented in this portfolio are the property of their author and cannot be copied or distributed. They come from photos and silver prints made in the 1990s. The different themes take into account image rights and are the subject of a tacit agreement of the people photographed in reporting conditions based on short focal lengths. The scenes produced in public places are based on the 2004 case law on the right of artistic expression.

The humanist photography movement has lastingly nourished my thinking on the subject of photography. The work of Walker Evans, Willy Ronis and Sabine Weiss particularly struck me by the aesthetic emotion they aroused as well as by the social and documentary context of the images. Photography is for me a source of discovery, of encounter, of lucidity in the spectacle of the world. The themes covered in this portfolio draw their inspiration from these fleeting moments. They question humans, their emotions, their social reality, the fluidity of time and the fragile beauty of the world around us.

Biography

Jean-Marie Abbal was born in 1956, he studied Arts in Scotland at the Duncan of Jordanstone and at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès where he obtained a Masters in Applied Arts.

He created the Pictorial graphic design workshop and is involved as an author in the development of multimedia publishing support.
In 1997 he joined national education where he taught until 2020 in the post-baccalaureate sector in BTS Graphic Design at the Saint Géraud high school of communication in Aurillac.