Brigitte GRIGNET
The days that remain
To 28 May
Rencontres de la jeune photographie internationale 2022
Over the last 20 years, I’ve taken countless boats, planes and buses. I’ve missed others. My camera has always been with me. Photography helps me to come to terms with the world, and with other people. When I look at my images, they sometimes seem to emanate from dreams. But they tell me that one day, I stood
there, and these fragments of life are mine. I have this irresistible urge to escape to the edges of the world. Places where time is suspended and people still follow an ancestral way of life. Every day, we see and hear so many things. It’s as if a story were being told to us, never finished, with a thousand and one details. Suddenly, it’s a surprise. One thing like another, an emotion. Life has moved, and the astonishment is there. In these moments of acute awareness, the world seems a new place. Images seem to create a universe of their own. In the solitude of these moments, deeply anchored in the present, I am more aware than ever that today will never happen again.
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Biography
Brigitte Grignet is a photographer with a documentary approach based on personal relationships and emotion. She studied photography at ICP in New York, where she lived for 15 years, including 10 years working with Mary Ellen Mark. She has worked regularly in southern Chile. She has also collaborated with Action Against Hunger in Guatemala, Colombia and Palestine. She tells the stories of ordinary people and their indomitable will to survive difficult situations, their continual quest to build and live a dignified life full of grace.
Winner of numerous awards and distinctions: Marty Forscher Award for Emerging Photographer in 2001; Musée de la photographie à Charleroi in 2017; Aaron Siskind Grant in 2011, Magnum Emergency Fund Grant in 2016, … She is represented by Agence Vu’. Her work has been widely published (Newsweek, The New Yorker, Pdn, Le Monde, Foto- Visura, NPR, Libération, Washington Post, El Pais, Days Japan, Lettre Internationale, Private, …), has enjoyed exhibitions around the world and features in many renowned collections (Kyosato Museum of Photography, Musée de la Photographie in Charleroi, Portland Art Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, Center for Creative Photography in Tucson etc.). In August 2015, Yellow Now published Present Perfect, her first monographic work.
She took part in the RJPI Artist Residencies in 2000.