{"id":494,"date":"2017-05-03T12:49:07","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T11:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/?p=494"},"modified":"2017-05-03T14:38:21","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T13:38:21","slug":"brief-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/03\/brief-encounter\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief Encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past three or four years I&rsquo;ve come across a man standing in the from row, taking photographs of the artists at Welcome in Tziganie. We never really had the opportunity to talk until this year when we actually spoke a little, and after the festival it dawned on me that it was <strong>Jean Jaques MOLES<\/strong> a photographer based at Maubec in\u00a0the neighbouring department Tarn-et-Garonne.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/moles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-495 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/moles-276x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/moles-276x300.jpg 276w, https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/moles.jpg 551w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He has most recently exposed work at the Abbey de Flaran in the Gers, and I remember really liking some of\u00a0his work when we visited the exhibition\u00a0earlier this year (<em>before I realised who he was<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>We exchanged a few e-mails after the festival, and this exchange has left\u00a0me a little confused. He made a comment regarding\u00a0the photographs he&rsquo;d seen on my site :<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0<em>I found your images very &lsquo;harmonious&rsquo; with respect to the lighting &#8211; and it&rsquo;s for this reason that I think you &lsquo;treated&rsquo; them before publishing. I don&rsquo;t treat my images<\/em>\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>I really don&rsquo;t know what to say &#8211;\u00a0 yes, I &lsquo;adjusted&rsquo;\u00a0 the exposures it&rsquo;s true &#8211; this is inevitable in a concert situation where the lighting changes as the artists move on stage. Does this mean he doesn&rsquo;t like anything that has been &lsquo;adjusted&rsquo;? I find this a little old-fashioned, frankly.<\/p>\n<p>Sad really &#8211; I&rsquo;d hoped this friendship might develop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past three or four years I&rsquo;ve come across a man standing in the from row, taking photographs of the artists at Welcome in Tziganie. We never really had the opportunity to talk until this year when we actually spoke a little, and after the festival it dawned on me that it was Jean &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/03\/brief-encounter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> de &laquo;&nbsp;Brief Encounter&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}