Les yeux grands ouverts

“I met Edith Thoueille, responsible for childcare and child Protection Maternelle de Paris 14e, which for 15 years, doing an outstanding job with blind women wishing to have a child. It strives to combat prejudice, and encourages these women do not. This meeting was crucial: I saw and photographed Edith accompanying and guiding the blind woman and her baby, and then there were the others …
I looked carefully these women behave with such accuracy and precision with their child, and I admired. I tried to imagine, to close their eyes, naively, to see what they do not, without success, because the mixing, I realized that they saw what I did not, and vice versa. And it seemed absurd to try to compare or look for a difference.”
Delphine Warin

This book comes with a DVD including photographs, testimonies of mothers blind and a soundtrack of text that accompanies the book.

Published with the support of a Federation of the Blind and Visually Impaired of France, the Association Valentin Haüy Foundation and Orange

Coproducer

Fondation Orange - FAF

Released

29/09/2009

Collection

Hors Collection

Format

240 x 300

Relié couverture cartonnée

27 duo tone photos

64 pages

ISBN : 978-2-35046-180-9

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Press review

Les yeux grands ouverts

Delphine Warin

Magali Jauffret, Edith Thoueille

Delphine Warin

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Delphine Warin, after studying Russian and theater, is moving in 1988 to photograph the following courses at the Center for Media Art Center at American, then went to New York to study at the International Center of Photography. Back in Paris, it deepened his photographic research with a particular interest in the portrait, and while attending Sarah Moon, she began a personal search with: Around Mississippi One, Links & Meetings singular.
It works with the press and produces exhibitions commissioned by institutions such as Fnac, AFAA, and the Musée de Sceaux. Whether it’s portraits of anonymous or personalities, both couples and what binds them, their priority is to reveal their most intimate.

Magali Jauffret

Auteur, Journaliste

Magali Jauffret is a journalist, critic, and author specializing in contemporary photography.
She was a long-time contributor to the French daily L’Humanité, where she reported on cultural affairs with a particular focus on visual arts, socially engaged practices, and the unique voices of photographers.

Her writing—both precise and thoughtful—has accompanied the work of numerous artists, offering insight into their creative processes, artistic legacies, and thematic concerns.
She has authored texts for several books published by Filigranes Editions, including Tout peut arriver (Gilbert Garcin), Corinne Mercadier, Sur la plage (Sylvie Hugues), and Éloge de combats ordinaires (Catherine Poncin).

Through her work, Magali Jauffret champions a form of criticism that is both committed and open to personal narratives as well as the quiet struggles of everyday life.