Arthuro Gaëtan’s portraits
In the 1970s, studio photographer Arthuro Gaëtan captured hundreds of identity portraits for members of the local Guatemalan community, who visited his studio to obtain photographs required for their official documents. All portraits were taken with a chamber camera and developed in his dark room. But after his death, his legacy was nearly erased. Arthuro’s […]
Chiquimulilla
Motivated by a deep desire to honor Arthuro Gaëtan’s legacy, I returned to Chiquimulilla (Guatemala) in 2017 with my friend and film maker Florent de la Tullaye, to search for the individuals who had once stood before Arthuro’s lens. Reconnecting with Arthuro’s family and some of the photographed subjects brought the village’s memory vividly back […]
Les portraits retrouvés
In the year 2000, amidst the chaos of a garbage dump in an unknown corner of Latin America, photographer Jean-Marc Wullschleger (known as Jean Marc Wull) stumbled upon a forgotten relic: a box of old medium format negatives. At the time, he and his partner were halfway through a three-year journey across the continent in […]