De haut en bas Le Cap d'Agde, 1989 Olivier et Catherine, Paris, 2005 Un soir à Pontoise, 2006 Piscine de Pantin, 1988 Un père et son fils, Porte de Clignancourt, 2006 Coulisses du Palais Garnier, 2002

3 February - 4 April 2010 Luc Choquer met men and women living in France during portrait sessions for magazines; these photo shoots very often resulted in profound encounters involving a real dialogue between photographer and model. Luc Choquer decide to put together an entire project focusing on people he met going about their daily lives. He asked them to pose for him with complete freedom, and collected their written and spoken words. "Over the past years I've felt I was living in a period of radical change, at the end and the beginning of a rough, chaotic, dizzying, and truly pivotal century. People will probably later refer to this period as a transition towards a new "middle ages" or a "renaissance". This feeling made me want to stop looking for the meaning of things at the ends of the earth, and seek it instead in my next door neighbours: men and women we all meet every day and whom we think we know without realizing how incredibly unique they are. Fragility and madness can rub shoulders with normality. It's a narrow line we all tread, and it explains my choice of radicality in these portraits, and also my desire to record spoken and written words; those words which, unlike in journalistic interviews, seem to escape from people's lips rather than being uttered. Some of these portraits are accompanied by excerpts from a Proustian questionnaire coordinated with the help of Bernard Pelosse (a psychologist and writer) and recorded on video by Philippe Roméo. These portraits refer to that which is collective; they ask questions." Luc Choquer, September 2006