"I do not believe in genius, especially in photography: men have no genius. Nature, however, the order or disorder of things, does. It is up to us to see, to know how to be in the magnetic field of this miraculous, transitory, or latent order."
A member of the l’École humaniste de Paris, a photographic movement in which Robert Doisneau, Willy Ronis, Sabine Weiss, and Edouard Boubat participated, Jean-Philippe Charbonnier has a powerful, sensitive, impertinent gaze on the world around him. This gaze captures the deep expression of life, on a street corner, in a family's living room, or on a trip. Winner of the Grand Prix of the City of Paris for photography in 1996, Jean-Philippe Charbonnier combines tragic, comic and unusual, with a sought-after and perfectly mastered aesthetic.