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Bettina MONTAVON, independent author-photographer, born in Lausanne in 1957, received an arts degree from the University of Geneva. She works in Geneva and has her own photography studio.
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She attended photography workshops taught by Jean-Marie Périer and Patrick Messina at the "Rencontres internationales de la photographie" in Arles as well as workshops organized by Claudio Porcarelli and Giovanni Gastel in Italy. She devotes now a big part of her time to working to the portrait.
"In photography, the break is constitutive, primary: the sample is instantly taken. However, one is entitled to ask: who takes what? Word has it that the photographer seizes a fragment of the outside world (a frame). But it also seems quite fair to say: the outside captures a fragment of me; it seems to attract something from inside, part of my thoughts, of my state of mind. It is in this way that Robert Frank, like Godard, reveals a little about himself."
Régis Durand (quotation translated from French)
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