Mathieu Pernot

Born in 1971 in Fréjus (France), he lives in Paris and in Barcelona.

Mathieu Pernot's pictures in the series Implosions (2001) were taken in France's suburbs and outskirts (Mantes-la-Jolie, La Courneuve, Meaux,etc...) during controlled explosions and destructions of obsolete buildings and apartment blocks. For the photographer, the picture of the "decisive instant" of the building's collapse points to the fragility of a social system capable of discussing both the construction and destruction of its history. As part of the "Passerelles en Midi-Pyrénées" programme, the festival is presenting in Cahors one of his first photographic works, Tsiganes, a rigorous and honest approach to the life styles of nomadic peoples.