Friday January 17, 2025, the photographer artist Mathieu Le Guern, aka Krank Du, hung his exhibition “Reflets” at the Bannalec media library, as part of the Taol Kurun festival. “I chose a predominance of blue, and in addition there are also red, orange and yellow. Other black and white photos are smaller so people can get closer. I have been taking photos for 20 years and I have around a hundred prints since my first exhibition in 2019. It was after learning Breton that I began to exhibit my work because I previously felt that it something was missing,” explains Mathieu Le Guern.
“I work on colors, contrast and balance”
By doing exercises on haikus in Breton, he found what he was missing: each photograph is now accompanied by a bilingual haiku. His paintings are not photo montages: he photographs the reflections and presents the photo upside down “to have a mysterious and confusing aspect. I work on colors, contrast and balance. I can also have three different exposures (of HDR) which allows me to have a sky with sufficient
of details, that the white is not “burned” and that in the shaded part, we can see all the clarity. For most photographs, I don’t need to do more because the water, with the reflection, already has a filter effect and softens the lights.
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“Reflections”, an exhibition by Mathieu Le Guern, alias Krank Du, visible at the Tangram media library in Bannalec, until March 8, 2025.
