YANN FAUCHER
Yann Faucher has had a lot of jobs - span- ning the gauntlet from working profession- ally for the French government to being a full-time carer. Faucher grew up in Brittany, Western France, but was originally a native of Peru.
He says his love affair with photography didn’t start (like the careers of so many do) with instant infatuation with a camera gifted to him by a doting father – in fact his father’s camera was a ‘super cool’ Pen- tax ME Super which he wasn’t allowed to touch. Nowadays things have progressed a little – he shoots using ‘old, funky, heavy cameras’ and loves using Agfa colour films, and although celluloid is obviously his pre- ferred medium, he isn’t quite completely against using digital - ‘I just upgraded my
very expensive digital camera to another ex- pensive digital camera… I am probably going to use it twice a year, it’s lame’. Something very refreshing about Yann is the fact that he shoots (and only wants to shoot) purely for the love of the craft. He says he does not feel any pressure to pursue it as a money-making career; ‘I don’t feel any pres- sure at all, I feel free and independent... and I always wanted it to be that way from the very beginning - and my life in general. I have had professional photographic experience in the past but I already knew that it was not for me.’ He adds that ‘I am also not a business man and I am the shittest PR person ever. I think there’s something incompatible and tricky when ambition meets photography’. Faucher describes himself as ‘down to earth,
realistic and utterly pragmatic’, he loves ‘dodgy films’ and to read. ‘I would love to read more... the last books I read were some of Pau- lo Coelho’s books and I didn’t think they were that good at all (sorry Paulo). I tried to read the Twilight saga, but I had to stop after the third one. It was seriously crap. Once you’ve read authors like Zola, Balzac and Camus, there is seriously no comparison.’
He is characteristically elusive about his re- lationship to his subjects – whether they are friends, lovers or strangers remains a mystery – and leaves WOLF with an equally abstruse statement - ‘I have a plan, and I love it when a plan comes together’.
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