Patrick Taberna

Patrick Taberna began photographing during his travels in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the United States with Nicolas Bouvier's book The Ways of the World in his pocket. Shortly after his arrival in Paris in 1987, he regularly attended the 30×40 Club led by Jean Luc Lemaitre and then Francis Richard. In 1997 he carried out a mail art action: Passage en Ouest where ten people received a different photo-postcard for 37 consecutive weeks. This adventure allowed him, above all, to correspond with his admired photographers Bernard Plossu and Robert Frank. Patrick Taberna won the Fnac Paris prize in 2001 for his work Nos Italies and in 2004 he received the HSBC Foundation prize for Au fil des jours.

 

His photography - still linked to travel but more intimate - becomes increasingly autobiographical and offers images of a past considered without nostalgia, as a richness that enriches the present.

According to the author, photography, painting, visual arts, poetry, literature, etc... are all false barriers, there are only images that speak.

 

The series Au fil des jours takes place over 4 years, from 2000 to 2003, the years between the birth of his first daughter Clément and that of his sister Héloïse.These images are created in the course of the days, in the company of loved ones and in the intimacy of her family.Square black and white photographs, all of them poetic. The images he collects help to compose a log of eternal instants, an autobiography of chance that the viewer can use to imagine a story of his own. Imagination and image share the same etymology. All images are a fiction and memory is another invention.