the singer's daughter opens up about her father in a book which comes out this November 6

It is a tribute in all simplicity and tenderness that Ael Pagny delivers to his father, Florent Pagny, in an intimate work which comes out this November 6. With Pagny by Aelthe young twenty-five-year-old photographer reveals previously unseen photos taken during the singer's 60th birthday tour in 2021, before the “flip of the switch” – as Florent calls his lung cancer – abruptly stops the party.

This November 6, Ael Pagny, twenty-five years old, reveals Pagny by Aela book which plunges us into the intimacy of his father, Florent Pagny. Between tour photos and moving life moments, Ael shares a rare testimony, that of a daughter facing her father's fight against lung cancer.

A photographic story that begins with passion

Ael Pagny, behind the lens since he was twelve, talks about how photography became his means of expression. “ I take pictures so I don't have to talk,” she confides to Audrey Crespo-Mara in Seven to Eight. Shy and introverted, she first captured landscapes, but very quickly, her father became her favorite subject.

The switch: a sudden fight against illness

Everything changes in January 2022. Florent Pagny announces lung cancer, an ordeal he nicknames “the switch”. “ It puts a break in our daily life,” Ael explains. Despite the shock, she continued to photograph her father, even in the hardest moments. “ I didn't see the sick man, I just saw my dad. »

Immortalize life, even in difficulty

Beyond illness, Pagny by AeIt evokes moments of complicity. Like this series of photos at Mont-Saint-Michel, where Florent, despite the physical changes imposed by chemotherapy, allows himself to be photographed by his daughter. “ He wasn't happy about losing his beard and hair, but I still thought he was just as handsome. »

Today, Florent Pagny is doing better. Ael shares this good news: “ He had another test recently, and everything is fine. We are happy. » Between the pages of this book, we discover a father and his daughter, united in the face of adversity, and above all, a testimony of sincere and moving love.