Out of 95 photographers only 15 are women and only 10 are not white .
Patrick Zachmann is the photographer I have chosen to analyze because he fell into photography as a way of finding his identity and his memories. Zachmann is French photographer who joined a magnum in 1990. Prior to discovering himself he tried to find cultural identities of other countries or people in certain positions of authority in countries where authority is very disregarded and over run.
By finding other people’s identity for them when they couldn’t he found himself. Himself being a French Jewish man who has no memories of his life so he tries to reconstruct them through other people. When he was photographing Jewish identities he ended up creating a chapter about his family. This was later made into a short film in the late 90’s. He also spent some time following immigrants in France and how they adapted their identity to what was the French way of living and documented how they changed and became more French in their character from when they arrived.
Many people don’t remember their past and therefore now a days they take photos to ensure they never forget but this was not Zachmann’s case, so by helping others capture their memories he was able to fuel his work to continue ring a photographer. He spent some time creating a diary of his fathers memories ,or that’s how he perceived it which expresses disappearances of traces of memories and people ,and how photography can actually shape an entirely different image in your head that is not the actual memory but what photography has made you think it is. It’s for these reasons that I think he is an inspiring photographer and that his work is so raw and beautiful for being so natural.
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