Photojournalist Jacques Nadeau had the opportunity to meet Kim Yaroshevskaya up close for his book Venerablespublished last October. “He was a person who imposed his personality and his actions,” he said at the microphone of Mario Dumont.
Having worked for nearly 30 years at Dutyphotojournalist Jacques Nadeau set himself the goal of meeting Quebec personalities of venerable ages.
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Pour Venerableshe met 80 personalities, including Béatrice Picard, Fernand Dansereau, Armand Vaillancourt and Kim Yaroshevskaya.
“I’m 70 years old and I wanted to meet people who would give me the desire to continue,” he told 99.5 FM. I don’t want to end up in a CHSLD later.”
-He went to see the interpreter of Fanfreluche on three occasions to get to know her well. “The last sentence she said to me was: ‘I’m continuing to live my life,’” he says. There’s so much hope when you meet people like that.”
“She told us stories”
Jacques Nadeau remembered when he was an 8-year-old “ti-cul” and he watched Fanfreluche. “She was the only person who told us stories, who made our imagination work,” he says.
“She gave me a taste for traveling,” he continues. At 16, I didn’t know what to do and went to California. I traveled all over the world and that’s how I discovered my love for photojournalism.”
In his three meetings with Kim Yaroshevskaya, Jacques Nadeau only used his camera once. The other two times, it was simply to “talk about life” with the actress, without doing an official interview.
“She had a beauty that wasn’t just physical. There was the beauty of being, a being of love. It was a photo session like I haven’t often experienced.”
