photography: a passion... an invitation to dream!
Passionate about photography since childhood – that I have never left 😉 – as a boy, I was fascinated by this Brownie Junior Six-20 camera of the 1930's that my Grandpagave me, I like to express and share my way of seeing the world.
So why photography? Because we all need to dream... in the abstract, in front of the beauties of nature... to escape to nearby or distant destinations... to hear us tell stories.
And as Twyla Tharp, dancer and choreographer, wrote it : « If art is the bridge between what you visualize and what others see, then talent is the way you build this bridge. » But I'm not a choreographer. 😉
Jean-Claude
a few landmarks:
1st-30th November 2022 Exhibition "illusions" at the Epicerie in Chalonnes sur Loire (49) on the theme of abstraction.
End 2020-beginning 2021Covid not helping... few were the fortunate privileged ones who had access to the exhibition.
Fortunately, a video exists (see next - might not not display on all media) so that you can enjoy it, waiting for the next exhibition!
18th November 2018 - 1st prize n&b - CACS competition Atelier Photo de Beaucouzé (49070) open to amateur photographers of the region on the theme "The bicycle", with the legend "4 pour 2".
6th March-2nd April 2013 - Colour, light, blue sky... nothing like it to perk yourself up as spring approaches: photo exhibition at the Made In Café in Nantes on the theme "Littoral".
17th January-16th March 2012 - Expo-photo Barcelona - The LogisOuest company, which manages more than 5,000 housing units for rent and accession to the property in the Pays de la Loire and Centre regions, welcomes in its Nantes premises some thirty photographs illustrating the Catalan capital through the sharp and artistic look of Jean-Claude MOYON, member of the Nantais Photo Club.
2nd-5th December 2009 - Embarcadere exhibition - Jean-Claude exhibited 36 frames at the Foyer des Jeunes Travailleurs Embarcadère in Nantes with on the menu: "welcome by Santa Claus", "seasonal entrance", "desert - before the main course", "variations on orange", "local farandole", "our friends have the word ... or almost", "see you at the bar".
31st March 2008 - The Nantais Photo Club awarded the prizes of its "Spring Photographic Meetings" competition on the theme "curve(s)" : 1st prize "b&w series" category for the series "Guitarboy"...
...2nd price "color" category for the "Golden eye" series. It was later recognised that the first price was a limit off the subject 😉
March 2008 - It's on every lip... Mag'online company publishes in its number 4 an article about "him": broadcast on their site and on paper and cd to 20,000 copies on the Nantes agglomeration.
10-27th January 2008 - Expo Italy. The Franco-Italian Cultural Centre organized a competition and an exhibition at the Cosmopolis Centre in Nantes for which 4 photos of Venice were selected.
24 hours Le Mans 2007 "Supporter" ranked 2nd prize in June news from linternaute.com
Heritage Days 2007 Photo illustrating Heritage days on linternaute.com.
Trot Grand National 2007 linternaute.com 6th news prize
1969 - Ouh la la... That's going back a bit... and they even kept the reproduction rights on a slide!
A few years later... for the Heritage Year 1980 : 4th slide prize at the competition of the departmental committee of tourism of Ille et Vilaine with travelling exhibition.
narcissistic? no - just for the fun of it!
It is said that it would be very rare for a photographer, whether an artist or an amateur, to never succumb to the temptation of taking self-portraits.
No introspective dimension assumed as far as I am concerned, but just an attraction for reflections whatever.
In any case,self-portrait is considered as a genre of photography in its own right , and as testimony... that I always take my camera everywhere 😉
