[Music]
what are they whispering to your
hear
I ‘m ten years old I ‘m ten years old and I’m going
tell you the cold monfroy we are in
1960
my parents make me a present
unexpectedly he takes me to the dotted
from noon to chamonix take the
cable car that leads to this cave of
ice cream and the a10 in short panties
I take the ice in my arms I
play lembras and I think it’s good
simple I did not understand well at the beginning
in any case I did not know what
importance was going to take on the water element
in my life and in life just the
life of the universe it is this element
indispensable to survival 1
I would understand later at this time
so I was ten years old I had a kodak
star flash brownies maybe the
old people remember
it’s silver 1 it was peaks
kodak film with the hen pin
we put it like that upstairs she writes p
unfortunately it will not go off and
then I grow 1
I always had trouble with
the school against this is a
certainty and when I returned from high school
I was more interested in the shop
from an old-fashioned photographer I lived
paris that fascinated me I spent all
the days I was hanging out a bit to do
my homework and I preferred to lick the
showcase look through the showcase
the cameras that I discovered
more complicated than that there I saw
enlarger at the bottom of prints
also and then I had to be 15 years old
I pass the door I decide to enter
I had seen the physiognomy of this
man
many times from outside a big
elderly gentleman at the time with a beard
and his gray blouse I remember very
well of his blouse I get into the
shop
and then very spontaneously as if he
had already understood what I wanted it
tell me but sit down what are you
want and there I tell him but I would like
to learn I would like to discover and there
I started to touch having this
physical relationship with the devices the
goals
I discovered the reflex the
enlarger of photo paper
smells he had a lab of course
behind so obviously I went there
invited me to go see in his lab
I felt the smell of the product and that
I liked it I felt
trust as if naturally what
I had anticipated years before with
my parents who had me a
little initiated by offering me a device
photo it became obvious natural and
then my parents
just to make me a little soul
week end I was in high school I had my
parents in the markets he was
trader
we call it non traders
sedentary at the time
I was not very proud of this job one of
to walk about the junk as we said
at that time from one place to another
by changing every day of place I
did not find it rewarding and then it was
well changed since
when I realized that finally
it was a legacy of this nomadism that
I grow rey after when I understood
that I was great grandson of a
lumberjack in deep forests
here a Russian immigrant I left myself
go
here is to put pennies aside with this
little weekend job or
I was saving and great well low price
because one day in high school
I hear about the project to mount a
photo lab is here with some friends
we embark on the adventure and it’s
just great because here we settle
in an empty room of high school material
the enlarger the bins and I discover
the developer the fixer of words that to
that time we revealed a draw
did not have the meaning he took then
revealed revealed that revealed an image
of a photograph taken a few days
earlier of a character at the time
photograph the tramps on the street
is fixed this image for a duration
unknown
at the same time hoisted i’m doing a
decisive encounter in another spirit
in the person of my teacher
French
a mystic enough taciturn but kim
open the way one day he tells us about
platon and this famous allegory of
the cave and these chained men
that they see in the background the shadows of
the symbolic reality of accession to
knowledge they do not have
right and the knowledge that needs to be
shared of course and then another
day he talks to us about Socrates and that
is that another philosopher and
socrates of his maieutics maieutics
the art of giving birth to sleeping spirits
the spirits and there I do not know it is
pass a trick a click in my head
socrates and platoon who was probably
tedx affiliates at the time whispered to me
the ear
both and if there were other
thing
and if there was an elsewhere and if the eye
true was inside
if the eyes were just windows
to open on a depth
it is to exist in it is at this moment
where I started taking
awareness of the fragility of being
these are the metaphysical anxieties I
think you knew all that stuff
lasts
the months pass
the photo occupies more and more space
in my life one after setting up this lab
and still not very schooly I
decide to leave high school I’m in
terminal I start a terminal and at
the favor of an opportunity enough
exceptional I leave high school
one of my good friends leaves me his
beach is Claude Lelouch director
he had just made a man and a woman
he was in the ascension he
was looking for an assistant to do everything I
been seven assistants to do everything during
some months
that’s what it allowed me to see that
I did not want to work in the
cinema and that it was really the
photograph that was my engine
name my way of expression
so I left I went into
studios I shot I did the lab
then one day the boss at whom I was
fell a little stuck like me tonight and
he had a contract with a house of
important discs and it was from tina
turner who came to make his first
European tour that went through the
France with an Olympia and he tells me
michel you have to go I did not think
long time huh
I had changed equipment since
and I just spent three days with
tina turner ike and and her group and i
follow-ups everywhere
you imagine on what little cloud was
in this experience was then
I made another important meeting
in the person of I’m going to say my
mentor
where I learned the picture for 15
years old jean-claude de wolf
where I really integrated the light
the framing everything that allows to
reproduce in the studio the reality and for
need to feed my escape need
[Music]
well I was saving every summer I was going
at the time it was the call of the show
was not yet the cold call
I made about ten trips in
asia india at the beginning a country that has me
deeply upset the culture a
world in the world
and then japan japan where i discovered
the art of bonsai these little dwarfs trees
japanese image in reduction of the
nature locked in a pot that the
Japanese or the Chinese torture for
that it looks like what exists in the
nature of the tormented pines twisted by the
wind and I do not know I had a click to
that moment and coming back to paris I
spent a year a year of my life at
photograph these dwarf trees in the studio
by sending them my vision is my
light for to better share
then is still a click
my photography started to change
she was essentially aesthetic
before the beauty of the elements of the
curves shapes play with light
and and thanks to that I started we go
tell to communicate with letters from
things through these trees and and fashion
aesthetic the photo and became
ethical and contemplative
I really spent a year in immersion
with her dwarf trees my wife was telling me
that I cheated on it with trees
it was less bad and then in 92 I
realize a dream that tickled me since
long time still in relation to the
cold it had been several years since
I wanted to go and set foot on
the iceland of Greenland
the icecap of Greenland is
still four times France
it’s an amazing fresh water reserve
and I arrive there to discover the
largest iceberg debtors
the northern hemisphere disko bay in
the village says tell him who means
long live icebergs and here I am
overwhelmed by this disproportion
I cry and at the same time I laugh
feel good I feel at my place
I went back this time and 10 years
after one of more than ten years I knew it
not at the time but by returning to
same place they tell him at the
pack ice had retreated 300 km and there I
really become aware of
upheavals that was going on
produce on the planet and dangers
that that represented for the species
human
species in general maybe this
who participated in my deep reflection
about my decision to change lives and
I had a photo agency between
time and is to go back live here at
contact of nature
this wild nature
2012 is also a key year in my life
a crucial year
first a year of discovery
when I wanted to return it was my
eighth trip to Greenland in
immersion with two Inuit hunters
I crossed the beautiful city which is
350 km between these two
villages coucheurs swac ekra civic life
and and there I had a big shock also
the crack of decompressions
glacial mixed with the wind blowing in
end of the day whispered to my ear the
just note and the closer I got to the
pole
I was not far away anymore I felt
in my place as if I could touch
my pot inside here and there really
I felt that the cold was inscribed
in my dna share of course it takes
let go of the mind
this let go to trust themselves
let in by the singing of the
nature by all that I heard a
as the goal lets in the
light and 2012 was also a year
crucial but a terrible year
a terrible year because the loss
of a child in a life is a
unimaginable upheaval and and
alaixys one of my two sons at 26
left us with a heart failure in
the hautes-alpes
it was obviously difficult to
tell
there’s no words to describe the rest
this ordeal for a parent so I
went for solace
I explored looking for people to
help me I have not found the solutions
one day I went walking alone on
the way the paths of saint jacques
in France where I tried to experiment
this sentence of thich nhat hanh work has
if you feat
working towards this market as if your
feet kissed the earth I found some
comfort but it was not enough
because it was very cool and it was
will always be
but as attracted by a magnet magnet
the present past participle of the word love
and the same attracted by a magnet
I went back to the ice cream
beasts and men and and in three
years I have done almost 20 trips of
alaska to siberia at svalbard and
I will tell you a little poem that
maybe going to get me back the son
that I wrote when I was doing this
way I called it words and
ills I swapped the weight of my words
against that of a backpack his six
pounds are so light that I would come
almost go but want to look for the
light is a light bulb that is recovered
for sure it will disappear when the
lodging to appear I looked for I
immersion
I dropped when I went on a trip
in Canada where my tears mingled with the
snow falling when I
photographed a nice owl gh1
while waiting for his flight I started to
calm down and trust again
and then slowly slowly I’m
returned to a a self-confidence
because that little voice that whispers
in my ear and that he whispers to the
yours also one who needs to know how to listen
with discernment it is necessary to
start by letting go to trust
abandon his comfort zone for that’s it
let go of simplicity go
it costs to trust oneself
his abilities we have all his own cold
or his own show these desires
affirmed or not that one day holds us
titillate speaks to us whispers to
the ear
alain team
and then like everything that is not
shared or lost data after the exit
from my book two years ago I
undertook a tour de France on contact
public school booksellers
I visited schools of schoolchildren who
were thirsty to know to listen
talk to the bear to tell stories
the bear on the pack ice in the process of
run
frightened by the be the barking of
dogs and I lying on this ice floe
listening to my camera pointed at
these two plantigrades are aligned on
the animal I did not take pictures this day
there I was in communion I became
the animal I became nature
naturally everything was simple
I take this opportunity to tell you that bears
are going well I saw three hundred little by little
nearly 26 years they are among the number of
About 27 miles today and their
population is growing
on the other hand as we catch them
diseases and they die because water
becomes ice the ice melts in turn
to become one again and again
do not do everything that is all that
disappears must be reborn
and as dostoevsky tells us in
the idiot beauty will save the world
I want to add love love
and beauty will save the world just as
louis armstrong in his beautiful
song what a wonderful
[Applause]
[Music]
what are they whispering to your
hear
I ‘m ten years old I ‘m ten years old and I’m going
tell you the cold monfroy we are in
1960
my parents make me a present
unexpectedly he takes me to the dotted
from noon to chamonix take the
cable car that leads to this cave of
ice cream and the a10 in short panties
I take the ice in my arms I
play lembras and I think it’s good
simple I did not understand well at the beginning
in any case I did not know what
importance was going to take on the water element
in my life and in life just the
life of the universe it is this element
indispensable to survival 1
I would understand later at this time
so I was ten years old I had a kodak
star flash brownies maybe the
old people remember
it’s silver 1 it was peaks
kodak film with the hen pin
we put it like that upstairs she writes p
unfortunately it will not go off and
then I grow 1
I always had trouble with
the school against this is a
certainty and when I returned from high school
I was more interested in the shop
from an old-fashioned photographer I lived
paris that fascinated me I spent all
the days I was hanging out a bit to do
my homework and I preferred to lick the
showcase look through the showcase
the cameras that I discovered
more complicated than that there I saw
enlarger at the bottom of prints
also and then I had to be 15 years old
I pass the door I decide to enter
I had seen the physiognomy of this
man
many times from outside a big
elderly gentleman at the time with a beard
and his gray blouse I remember very
well of his blouse I get into the
shop
and then very spontaneously as if he
had already understood what I wanted it
tell me but sit down what are you
want and there I tell him but I would like
to learn I would like to discover and there
I started to touch having this
physical relationship with the devices the
goals
I discovered the reflex the
enlarger of photo paper
smells he had a lab of course
behind so obviously I went there
invited me to go see in his lab
I felt the smell of the product and that
I liked it I felt
trust as if naturally what
I had anticipated years before with
my parents who had me a
little initiated by offering me a device
photo it became obvious natural and
then my parents
just to make me a little soul
week end I was in high school I had my
parents in the markets he was
trader
we call it non traders
sedentary at the time
I was not very proud of this job one of
to walk about the junk as we said
at that time from one place to another
by changing every day of place I
did not find it rewarding and then it was
well changed since
when I realized that finally
it was a legacy of this nomadism that
I grow rey after when I understood
that I was great grandson of a
lumberjack in deep forests
here a Russian immigrant I left myself
go
here is to put pennies aside with this
little weekend job or
I was saving and great well low price
because one day in high school
I hear about the project to mount a
photo lab is here with some friends
we embark on the adventure and it’s
just great because here we settle
in an empty room of high school material
the enlarger the bins and I discover
the developer the fixer of words that to
that time we revealed a draw
did not have the meaning he took then
revealed revealed that revealed an image
of a photograph taken a few days
earlier of a character at the time
photograph the tramps on the street
is fixed this image for a duration
unknown
at the same time hoisted i’m doing a
decisive encounter in another spirit
in the person of my teacher
French
a mystic enough taciturn but kim
open the way one day he tells us about
platon and this famous allegory of
the cave and these chained men
that they see in the background the shadows of
the symbolic reality of accession to
knowledge they do not have
right and the knowledge that needs to be
shared of course and then another
day he talks to us about Socrates and that
is that another philosopher and
socrates of his maieutics maieutics
the art of giving birth to sleeping spirits
the spirits and there I do not know it is
pass a trick a click in my head
socrates and platoon who was probably
tedx affiliates at the time whispered to me
the ear
both and if there were other
thing
and if there was an elsewhere and if the eye
true was inside
if the eyes were just windows
to open on a depth
it is to exist in it is at this moment
where I started taking
awareness of the fragility of being
these are the metaphysical anxieties I
think you knew all that stuff
lasts
the months pass
the photo occupies more and more space
in my life one after setting up this lab
and still not very schooly I
decide to leave high school I’m in
terminal I start a terminal and at
the favor of an opportunity enough
exceptional I leave high school
one of my good friends leaves me his
beach is Claude Lelouch director
he had just made a man and a woman
he was in the ascension he
was looking for an assistant to do everything I
been seven assistants to do everything during
some months
that’s what it allowed me to see that
I did not want to work in the
cinema and that it was really the
photograph that was my engine
name my way of expression
so I left I went into
studios I shot I did the lab
then one day the boss at whom I was
fell a little stuck like me tonight and
he had a contract with a house of
important discs and it was from tina
turner who came to make his first
European tour that went through the
France with an Olympia and he tells me
michel you have to go I did not think
long time huh
I had changed equipment since
and I just spent three days with
tina turner ike and and her group and i
follow-ups everywhere
you imagine on what little cloud was
in this experience was then
I made another important meeting
in the person of I’m going to say my
mentor
where I learned the picture for 15
years old jean-claude de wolf
where I really integrated the light
the framing everything that allows to
reproduce in the studio the reality and for
need to feed my escape need
[Music]
well I was saving every summer I was going
at the time it was the call of the show
was not yet the cold call
I made about ten trips in
asia india at the beginning a country that has me
deeply upset the culture a
world in the world
and then japan japan where i discovered
the art of bonsai these little dwarfs trees
japanese image in reduction of the
nature locked in a pot that the
Japanese or the Chinese torture for
that it looks like what exists in the
nature of the tormented pines twisted by the
wind and I do not know I had a click to
that moment and coming back to paris I
spent a year a year of my life at
photograph these dwarf trees in the studio
by sending them my vision is my
light for to better share
then is still a click
my photography started to change
she was essentially aesthetic
before the beauty of the elements of the
curves shapes play with light
and and thanks to that I started we go
tell to communicate with letters from
things through these trees and and fashion
aesthetic the photo and became
ethical and contemplative
I really spent a year in immersion
with her dwarf trees my wife was telling me
that I cheated on it with trees
it was less bad and then in 92 I
realize a dream that tickled me since
long time still in relation to the
cold it had been several years since
I wanted to go and set foot on
the iceland of Greenland
the icecap of Greenland is
still four times France
it’s an amazing fresh water reserve
and I arrive there to discover the
largest iceberg debtors
the northern hemisphere disko bay in
the village says tell him who means
long live icebergs and here I am
overwhelmed by this disproportion
I cry and at the same time I laugh
feel good I feel at my place
I went back this time and 10 years
after one of more than ten years I knew it
not at the time but by returning to
same place they tell him at the
pack ice had retreated 300 km and there I
really become aware of
upheavals that was going on
produce on the planet and dangers
that that represented for the species
human
species in general maybe this
who participated in my deep reflection
about my decision to change lives and
I had a photo agency between
time and is to go back live here at
contact of nature
this wild nature
2012 is also a key year in my life
a crucial year
first a year of discovery
when I wanted to return it was my
eighth trip to Greenland in
immersion with two Inuit hunters
I crossed the beautiful city which is
350 km between these two
villages coucheurs swac ekra civic life
and and there I had a big shock also
the crack of decompressions
glacial mixed with the wind blowing in
end of the day whispered to my ear the
just note and the closer I got to the
pole
I was not far away anymore I felt
in my place as if I could touch
my pot inside here and there really
I felt that the cold was inscribed
in my dna share of course it takes
let go of the mind
this let go to trust themselves
let in by the singing of the
nature by all that I heard a
as the goal lets in the
light and 2012 was also a year
crucial but a terrible year
a terrible year because the loss
of a child in a life is a
unimaginable upheaval and and
alaixys one of my two sons at 26
left us with a heart failure in
the hautes-alpes
it was obviously difficult to
tell
there’s no words to describe the rest
this ordeal for a parent so I
went for solace
I explored looking for people to
help me I have not found the solutions
one day I went walking alone on
the way the paths of saint jacques
in France where I tried to experiment
this sentence of thich nhat hanh work has
if you feat
working towards this market as if your
feet kissed the earth I found some
comfort but it was not enough
because it was very cool and it was
will always be
but as attracted by a magnet magnet
the present past participle of the word love
and the same attracted by a magnet
I went back to the ice cream
beasts and men and and in three
years I have done almost 20 trips of
alaska to siberia at svalbard and
I will tell you a little poem that
maybe going to get me back the son
that I wrote when I was doing this
way I called it words and
ills I swapped the weight of my words
against that of a backpack his six
pounds are so light that I would come
almost go but want to look for the
light is a light bulb that is recovered
for sure it will disappear when the
lodging to appear I looked for I
immersion
I dropped when I went on a trip
in Canada where my tears mingled with the
snow falling when I
photographed a nice owl gh1
while waiting for his flight I started to
calm down and trust again
and then slowly slowly I’m
returned to a a self-confidence
because that little voice that whispers
in my ear and that he whispers to the
yours also one who needs to know how to listen
with discernment it is necessary to
start by letting go to trust
abandon his comfort zone for that’s it
let go of simplicity go
it costs to trust oneself
his abilities we have all his own cold
or his own show these desires
affirmed or not that one day holds us
titillate speaks to us whispers to
the ear
alain team
and then like everything that is not
shared or lost data after the exit
from my book two years ago I
undertook a tour de France on contact
public school booksellers
I visited schools of schoolchildren who
were thirsty to know to listen
talk to the bear to tell stories
the bear on the pack ice in the process of
run
frightened by the be the barking of
dogs and I lying on this ice floe
listening to my camera pointed at
these two plantigrades are aligned on
the animal I did not take pictures this day
there I was in communion I became
the animal I became nature
naturally everything was simple
I take this opportunity to tell you that bears
are going well I saw three hundred little by little
nearly 26 years they are among the number of
About 27 miles today and their
population is growing
on the other hand as we catch them
diseases and they die because water
becomes ice the ice melts in turn
to become one again and again
do not do everything that is all that
disappears must be reborn
and as dostoevsky tells us in
the idiot beauty will save the world
I want to add love love
and beauty will save the world just as
louis armstrong in his beautiful
song what a wonderful
[Applause]
[Music]
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