Distinct Perception
- International Photo Week 2006 (Shanghai, China)
- July 2006
Yves Gellie photographed people who have lived under an embargo since the first Gulf war and a country plunged into a disastrous economic and social situation. To cover the embargo in pictures, he isolates a detail of a worker’s dress on a shipyard in southern Iraq or the shoes of a surgeon at the entrance to an operating room of a hospital. His idea is not to prove or denounce, but to show. In his images, he doen’t show acts of violence but rather the signs of human violence, the marks it leaves on objects, landscape or architectures.