Françoise Merret, elected head of the library, asked us at the end of spring to take photos of Gestel from yesterday and today in order to present them during the integration day of new Gestel residents,
explains Paul Henry of the Gestel Photo association which this year has sixteen members.Twelve members, from 8 to 85 years old, come every Saturday afternoon to work on photos the old-fashioned way.
digitally.
Jean-Claude Lutz completes the story: “Three Gestelians (Jean-Claude Zéo, Jacques Talbot and Roger Nadan) lent us sixty postcards from old Gestel. We selected twenty of them to take photos of and then develop them, in black and white, in our film laboratory. For the duration of the exhibition, we lent the frames we owned to Gestel Photo. »
Virginie Menant concludes: We hope that the Gestélois will benefit from these thirty photos of the town which will be on display until January 4.
Until January 4, 2025, black and white photo exhibition, Gestels of yesterday and todayat the Gestel media library. Free and open access.
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