Jean-François FORT
Hans Lucas
Poitiers, France
Jean-François Fort was born near Poitiers where he still lives today. Gradually his relationship with books and travel led him to take an interest in photography. He follows the courses of the school of photography of Serge Gal: "Image Ouverte" in the Gard (south of France, 1991/1992) then he does a laboratory internship, supervised by Guillaume Geneste, in the editions "Contrejour" of Claude Nori in Paris.
Many stays abroad give rise to exhibitions and publications in France and occasionally in other cities of the world. Most often, his works are carried out in collaboration with poets, writers, calligraphers, University researchers ...
Today, his centers of interest are moving towards more social and sometimes less distant subjects such as, for example, migrants who have arrived in his city of Poitiers. It also responds to various commands.
Human beings are undoubtedly the main subject of his images, even when they are absent.
In 2013, the writer and artist Claude Margat wrote about his work:
"... Like the universe of which it is one of the aspects, the human face remains an enigma that the gaze of photographer Jean-François Fort never stops questioning. Because the face is indeed the place and even the only place of the human person where a presence that is as vague as it is essential for us is condensed: humanity, the presence of what makes man have something more than his animal brother, the presence in his own person of a questioning lively enough to reveal the presence of an abyss hitherto invisible to our eyes ... "