Photo-Poésie  2024

Partnership between the Mende Photo Club and the Mende Poetry Circle in 2024.

The idea

Suggest that poets take inspiration from photos taken by members of the photo club to write poems.

The work produced will be the subject of a joint exhibition in 2025 during poetry week

My participation

Personally I proposed around ten photos which seemed to me to correspond to the themes that the poets wanted to deal with.

4 of my photos were selected and the poems they inspired were read by their authors while they were screened on October 3, 2024 in front of a large audience.

I particularly appreciated the poem by Jérôme Greffard accompanying my photo of a window taken from a window in my house.
(see below)

Par la fenêtre           ( Through the window)

 

Par la fenêtre

un chemin

un tramail

une maison carrée

Nuit. Rideau.

Par la fenêtre

des promeneurs

des voisins

des chiens égarés

Rideau. Nuit.

Par la fenêtre

de l’orge dans un vase

une harpe

une chaise colorée

Nuit. Rideau.

Par la fenêtre

trois malles

une bibliothèque

un escalier

Rideau. Nuit.

Par la fenêtre

ton visage

ton sourire

tes yeux éclairés

Va-et-vient du bonheur

jour après jour

vie pleine

Pas de rideau. Pas de nuit.

                                                                                   Jérôme Greffard

These 3 photos also inspired other poems.

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