He didn’t say a word or two. Boston, he usually so jovial, so quick to respond to the slightest request, listened with emotion to the praises that a city, Montceau-les-Mines, wanted to show him at the opening of his photo exhibition in the Pier.
Boston, fisherman of images is one of the emblematic figures of the city if not downright a pictorial allegory that gives meaning to his work, which began more than twenty years ago.
Admittedly, our Laotian even though he walks around with his photographic paraphernalia _ he has finally gone digital _ worthy of a professional, he photographs for pleasure. He handles the trigger with as much dexterity as he happily cooks at the Dragon d’Or. Discreet, the image fisherman, “comes out of nowhere and you’re in the box” says Gérard Gronfier, first deputy mayor.
Boston, everyone knows him, “you are a familiar face” says Amélie Ghulam Nabi, delegated municipal councilor who is full of praise for his culinary finesse and his propensity to give joy to the images he frames in his objective. “In a dark world, you offer a world of light,” she says objectively.
“You capture us with your heart”
In the upper gallery of the Embarcadère are exhibited more than three hundred portraits of Montcellians and Montcelliennes. “You allow me to take your picture” he always asks the model who, in front of so much kindness, also displays a pretty smile. These people that he puts in a box, represent “the good looks of Montceau” underlines Nadine Bonin, one of his friends, in charge of “drawing the portrait” with his words.
When we talk regarding Boston, the character, this freeze-frame creator, is precisely reflected that of a photographer who gives life to the living, because “you capture us with your heart” continues Nadine. “With your photos, you reveal beautiful souls”.
He fishes with his camera the sensitivity of men and women, makes the people proud who return him in exchange for a smile. The photos of Boston are a hymn to the goodness that streams in his eyes. He perceives from us the best to restore the good thought of each one.
“You have become a character, you still have to become a symbol. You pay homage to us,” concludes Nadine Bonin.
Respect Boston.
Silent and modest, he internally measures how much his exhibition captures the attention of a city. The honor belongs to him even if, he says briefly, “you are the stars tonight”.
Jean-Bernard
Exhibition to see until October 14, 2022 during the opening hours of the Embarcadère.
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