Brigitte Grignet, born in 1968 in Belgium. Her work is distributed by l’Agence Vu (France). She lives in Brooklyn (USA).
The photos in this volume are personal records of events that have taken place in the physical world. They are about discovery, not creation; about finding out, not inventing – for other people to see how the photographer has framed what he has witnessed. These photos are meant to educate us. And they will, provided we are willing.
In 1974, I was six. I was in Belgium and I had never heard words such as “exile” or “dictatorship”. My mother had a pupil, a Chilean girl who had just escaped the regime of dictator Pinochet…
Photo cover: Fred Ivar Utsi Klemetsen (front), Francesco Morandin (back) Buy/Gift this issue New York, with its dreamy...
