Martine Franck
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Photography is about connections. When we look at an image, we are offered a portal to unite with individuals separated from us by geography, time and space. It’s a medium that succeeds through a process of empathy. This is something some photographers understand2012, and the second wife of Henri Cartier-Bresson – was a photographer who appreciated the notion of human connection through photography. When you look at her images, you are drawn in, absorbed. So many of her beautiful black & white images, taken on a 35mm Leica camera, involve the subject looking directly at the camera or otherwise looking into the eyes of their companions in the frame. Rarely are the images confrontational. Often, they are about the joy of being alive in a particular moment.
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