Les gens que j'aime

From June 27th to November 3th, 2024 – Museu del Cinema

Photographs by Christophe Farnarier

Christophe Farnarier, a filmmaker from Marseille based in Banyoles, presents Les gens que j’aime (The People I Love) from the series of photos: Vivim (1994), Le féminin pluriel (1996), European Friends (1999), Les gens que j’aime (2002-2024). In 1997, he participated in the Arles Photography Festival with a project entitled Mes amis, which included 40 photos, one of which was a collage of 120 photos entitled, Las gens que j'aime (The People I Love). It was an autobiographical mosaic containing clippings of trips, gatherings, loved ones, which aimed to highlight the importance of relationships.

Twenty-seven years later, we recover seventy-six images taken and developed in analogue format and also a collection of eighty slides that Christophe Farnarier took in the 80s and 90s.

For Farnarier, the camera it became a window through for viewed the world, especially the people around. These photos were not prepared or premeditated. They arose from real life, from a moment, from places and the existing light.