Paris based photographer Jean-François Abbate
“A vision in black and white of the city of Paris and its citizens, and sometimes from elsewhere in France . I do not particularly want to tell stories . I like when the image allows you your own story . I try to be has near as possible to this idea . I try to photograph as much as possible in the sense of this idea.
That said, I have nothing against the telling of stories. This will probably happen to me according to visual events that I will do during the rest of my life. (I’m 45 and I practice photography seriously only in recent years, approximately 5 years). I do not like the idea of gray in photography, I really prefer the hard contrasts, sometimes even violent … but you never know!
PS: I’m French … and my English is perhaps a bit basic, sorry about that!”
