What is the pre-text behind artistic, photographic and/or literary creation? How does writing infiltrate photography ? What place does the artist allow himself to occupy when he tells the story of someone else ? If we consider the notion of "intimacy" well beyond the private sphere, we can think about it as “a space of mutual recognition and the site of a shared otherness where, at once, the other is what we are and what we are not.”
Speaker bio: Adèle Godefroy is a photographer and a teacher in Lyon 1 university (France). She was born in Normandy in a family of farmers where she started to take pictures. Since then, she never stopped focusing her camera on topics such as work, the countryside, crafts and farming, inheritance issues. After moving in Paris for 10 years, she made a thesis on the links between writing and photography in Michel Butor's work (1926-2016). Through the prism of her artistic work, her research and her recent artistic collaboration with the American poet James Galvin, she will talk about the relationship that photography builds, and the place of the intimate in documentary photography.