At the André de Morlaix photo studio, Michel Quérou exhibits the art of capturing the moment

At the André de Morlaix photo studio, Michel Quérou exhibits the Art of capturing the moment

Lovers of photos that are as subtle in their framing as they are impactful in their immediacy have until spring to discover Michel Quérou’s exhibition, installed at the André photo studio. A written press then radio journalist, he worked at Le Parisien Libération, at France Inter, at RTL, at Europe 1, before successively taking charge of the Radio France branches in Lille, Valence, Nice and Aix-en-Provence. Since 2009, “relieved of all professional responsibility”, as he likes to emphasize, he has collaborated on your favorite daily newspaper. This is to paint a portrait of the artist in a few words.

“The shot is also unique in essence”

Because Michel Quérou, having been for decades a journalist reporter of sound and words, is no less also a reporter of images. This is evidenced by photographs of rare eclecticism whose common point is to have captured the extreme brevity of a moment. “The moment is something very precise, a brief sequence of life, a freeze frame,” he explains. “It is a unique moment, which will never be repeated: the cliché is therefore also unique in essence.” On the studio walls, 14 frames offer a very personal way of looking into the details of an event.

“Always be on the alert”

We discover his keen sense of framing and his reactivity to this famous moment, in the most diverse situations, on land, at sea and in the air. A flash of light alone capable of freezing the image of sailors who are about to capsize, of a dismounted rider who seems suspended in the air, when it is not the aerial grace of boxers or a couple of dancers. We will also focus on the titles, such as this nod to the Beatles, “Abbey Road with Indian sauce in Morlaix”, embodied by the elegance of four Indian women in saris crossing a pedestrian crossing in the city center. So, and because we have to lift the veil on one or two little manufacturing secrets, without saying too much, “The first is being in the right place, at the right time”. Be careful, it’s not as simple as it seems! “The second is to always be on the alert.”