GRÉGOIRE CAMPIONE
Beyond the rhetoric
We think we know everything about French politicians.
Their idiosyncrasies, their foibles, their tics of language. They themselves have learned to play with them. Communication has become just as important as the message.
Mastering the image.
And yet. The flaw still exists.
That moment when you lose control, when they lose control. Moments when they show themselves as they probably wouldn't want to appear. A part of themselves is revealed, often unexplored. It's this moment that I've sought to capture in this photographic work. The moment when intimacy, and perhaps truth, is revealed.
The moment when they lose their sacredness, when their weakness and humanity are revealed.
This work is also an invitation to see them differently, sometimes with gravity, sometimes with humor. This set of black-and-white, square-format photos was taken between September 2023 and 2024 during political rallies, public meetings and demonstrations.