Saturday November 9 at La Librairie, photographer Jean-Luc Grzeskowiak, originally from Châtellerault, signs his work From Venice to Shanghai… 24 cities, 24 astonishing storiesa book of photographs and stories around 24 emblematic cities around the world.
This work “testifies to urban development” of these large metropolises. The photos of Jean-Luc Grzeskowiak, silver or digital, are supported by the texts of Pascal Delannoy, former editor-in-chief then director of Franceinfo.
His parents ran the Gresko for 40 years
Jean-Luc Grzeskowiak, 65, has spent his entire career at Radio France, first as a technician, then as a production executive and columnist.
Retired for four years, he divides his life between Fontainebleau and Cabourg. He says to himself “happy and moved” to come and sign his book in his hometown, even more in the bookstore that he “attended regularly during (his) middle school and high school years.” “I left the city in 1982 but I have always kept a close link with Châtellerault”he testifies.
Jean-Luc Grzeskowiak's parents ran Café Gresko from 1944 to 1984 on Place Zola in the city center – which still bears this name forty years later.
His father, André, Grzeskowiak, known as “Dédé Gresko”, was, after the war, an illustrious footballer for SO Châtellerault. With his friend Pierre Matton, like him from the Lusignan club, he largely contributed to the rise of Soc in the French Amateur Championship (CFA) in 1948-1949. A Gresko-Matton street was inaugurated in 2018 in the Montée-Rouge stadium district.
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