![Photography, Bravade à Saint Tropez, José Nicolas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2233746_1_s.jpg)
by José Nicolas
Photography : silver print
36 x 36 x 0.1 cm 14.2 x 14.2 x 0 inch
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Photography: silver print
Dimensions cm • inch
36 x 36 x 0.1 cm 14.2 x 14.2 x 0 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Framing
Beige frame with glass
Artwork dimensions including frame
50 x 50 x 2 cm 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
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Artwork location: France
Format: 36 x 36 (image) in a 50 x 40 cm (sheet)
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Oak frame, glass
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On the paths of Briançonnais.
Upper Clarée Valley.
I knew Briançonnais through its mountain training center for soldiers leaving for Afghanistan. On several occasions I came to produce reports on training or prepare myself for my Afghan stays as a photographer.
The discovery of these massifs, on the less strenuous hiking side, will come in 2013 with the meeting of my wife who will introduce me to these wonderful places with the help of her mountain guide friends.
With each walk, my desire to photograph grew. I wanted to give another dimension with all the emotion that these passes and massifs gave me. Also, I chose the medium format in black and white film to give all the necessary dimension to this project and enhance the smallest detail of these landscapes.
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José NICOLAS
Born in Casablanca in 1956, a mother of Moroccan and Lebanese origin, a French father. Following the regular assignments of his military father, José Nicolas discovered Africa during his young years. Back in France at the age of 10, his parents entrusted him to the boarding school of the National Military Prytanée. The path is traced. At the end of schooling, integration into the professional military corps, entry into paratrooper units. Here he is again on the African continent. Lebanon, Chad, Central African Republic, Djibouti... The operations follow one another.
Photography “triggered” in the field through contact with image reporters. Yan Morvan who works for the Sipa agency and Jacques Pavlovsky for Sygma. A gift opens up “another world” to him: a work by Gilles Caron. José Nicolas buys his first “box”, a Nikkormat and begins amateur reporting…
1982, West Beirut is besieged. While on a mission, he met Bernard Kouchner who had just founded the association “Médecins du Monde”. During a leave, the young future photographer offers his ambulance services. A friendship and the beginnings of a future collaboration are formed. In the heart of a bombed city, the future photojournalist bears witness to the actions of the “French Doctors” rescuing and evacuating the victims of the fighting.
Returning to the Lebanese capital a year later, he was hit by a sniper's shot. Repatriation to France and convalescence. Once back on his feet, he definitively exchanges the “eye” of the rifle for that of the camera for a return to civilian life. 29 years old and a feeling of indescribable freedom rediscovered.
An encounter guides him towards professional photography. Gökşin Sipahioğlu, founder and director of the Sipa Press agency, hired him as a photojournalist and immediately sent him back to the heart of international conflicts. Accompanied this time by photographic equipment, he takes off to “cover” the “news”. At the same time, he continues to support the humanitarian trips of the “French Doctors”.
Reports from countries in conflict are multiplying: Lebanon, Afghanistan, Kurdistan, Suriname, China Sea, Madagascar, the revolution in Romania, Chad, the Iran-Iraq war, Liberia, Ivory Coast, the Gulf War, Bosnia, Somalia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone…
Wounded again while covering Operation Turquoise in Rwanda in 1994, José Nicolas left the Sipa agency to work "independently" in direct contact with the editorial staff, VSD in particular: Jerusalem, Egypt, Kosovo, Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Zanzibar, Guyana…
During “breaks” in France, the editorial staff sent him to take portraits: “meetings” of Sister Emmanuelle, Michel Portal, François Mitterrand, Jacques Chirac, Lionel Jospin, François Hollande, Jean-François Deniau...
Until 2014, he continued to “carry around devices over his shoulder” to feed the pages of the written press, certain images made the front page and a few “scoops”. A job full of adrenaline, precision, intuition, reactivity, adaptability, neutrality, following your 6th sense…
The time has just come to lift our feet from the mined paths. However, travel continues at a more serene pace: reports for NGOs, Haiti, Togo, Ghana...
José Nicolas then immerses himself in his agency archives: indexing, digitizing, organizing. A “material” is articulated and takes on “meaning”, the interest of players in the sector is aroused, exhibitions, publications and museum acquisitions follow one another.
In 2019, with the creation of the Atelier/Galerie Taylor in Paris, he extended another avenue of the medium. Share, transmit, accompany and (re)valorize the work of photographers who are dear to him, funds and archives of photographers and photojournalists from the 20th century and more contemporary authors.
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For 12 years, José Nicolas has worked with the Sipa-Press agency in Paris, covering numerous conflicts (Chad, Liberia in 1990, Lebanon 1984-1986, Afghanistan, the Romaninan Revolution in 1989, Bosnia between 1991 and 1996, Somalia in 1992-1993).
José Nicolas is a freelance photographer since 1996. He works with various publications and travels regularly.
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