See, it’s like this
Cédric Gerbehaye clearly belongs to a tradition, and makes no secret of it. He works in black and white, in silver emulsion ; he insists on taking the necessary time for documentary investigation, for bering witness, for telling « stories » ; he insists on his need for freedom of eye and of word to purse his […]
The right distance
The digital revolution, given that it is a revolution in the sense of constituting a new relationship to the world generated by new ways of seizing its representations, and their availability, restates in a radical way the question of the status, functions and connotations of images, in the first place those of photography, and more […]
Sète
The view is broad, sweeping. The space, at once immense and bounded, on which, from white to deepest black, the entire spectrum of greys is present, inscribing the materials in the implacable structure of the vanishing lines. On the right, the triangle of the sea wall matches that of the rocky surface on which the […]
D’entre eux
Cédric Gerbehaye had not worked in his homeland for a long time. Maybe he never really ‘saw’ it, as he was only an infrequent visitor between his many trips abroad. The Belgian photographer was always taking us somewhere else: to other continents where living conditions differ greatly to our own; or into the middle of […]
On the Cerro Rico
How do you photograph the origins of capitalism? Cédric Gerbehaye traveled to the Bolivian Andes to explore this question. Here he found a disconcerting example of how the economic system that enriches the industrialised world is facilitated by people who will never benefit from it themselves; people who – driven both by the world economy […]
Lithium Fever
We spoke with the photographer about the mining of a very promising raw material in one of the most impressive places on earth. Thanks to the enormous quantities of the light metal, lithium, in the Salar de Uyuni region of Bolivia, the country’s government sees golden days ahead. However, the road to becoming one of […]
Health Workers are Exhausted. A photo studio let them express it.
Six months ago, thick paper was taped to the windows of an 11th floor office in a hospital in the Belgian city of La Louvière. With the summer light blocked, a dark backdrop was hung inside the office and a camera positioned in front of it. From a laptop, mournful cello and piano notes filled […]
Zoonose
Empathy, dignity, sadness: this touching series, dedicated to the Corona pandemic, now appears as a book. Even after two years, the continuing consequences of COVID-19 can still be felt everywhere. There should be no trace of nonchalance; yet, since strict restrictions have been lifted in most European countries, a certain lack of concern is spreading. […]
La Peine
La prison est un décor qui fait fantasmer le cinéma depuis toujours. Que ce soit sur le registre de la fiction ou du documentaire, on a parfois l’impression d’en avoir fait le tour sous toutes les latitudes et à toutes les époques. La Peine s’attache à deux centres de détention situés à proximité immédiate de […]
La Peine, la réalité sans fard de l’univers carcéral belge
Premier long métrage documentaire du photographe belge Cédric Gerbehaye, La Peine est une plongée en huis clos au cœur de l’absurdité de la condition carcérale. C’est parce qu’il a habité avenue de la Jonction, à Bruxelles, entouré par les prisons de Forest, de Saint-Gilles, et de celle des femmes de Berkendael, que Cédric Gerbehaye décide à partir […]
Creating a link
Cédric Gerbehaye trained as a journalist. It is the desire to understand that drives him. When he travels to Palestine, the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan or Kashmir, he does so, he says, to « jump on the bandwagon of history », to see, above all, feel and document what is happening from the inside. He […]
Panoptik
Nous photographions nos proches, nous nous rappelons les moments heureux, pressés d’en vivre de nouveaux, pour mieux les photographier et ajouter des clichés aux clichés. Le monde est beau. Nous nous tenons au courant de l’actualité, à l’abri dans un café ou dans le confort de notre salon, un verre à la main, feuilletant journaux […]
La prison à la croisée des regards
La première double page du livre PANOPTIK du photographe et réalisateur Cédric Gerbehaye est une vueaérienne en noir et blanc des prisons de Saint-Gilles et de Forest que sépare l’avenue de la Jonction. Les formes géométriques de cette image d’archives résument au mieux le propos de l’ouvrage publié à l’occasion de l’exposition éponyme qui s’ouvrira […]