{"id":24502,"date":"2018-05-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fujifilmnxtc.wpenginepowered.com\/x-photographers\/jean-louis-courtinat\/"},"modified":"2018-05-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T03:00:00","slug":"jean-louis-courtinat","status":"publish","type":"photographer","link":"https:\/\/www.fujifilm-x.com\/zh-cn\/photographers\/jean-louis-courtinat\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean-Louis Courtinat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xphotographerspost__detail_data_motto_texts motto_texts\">\n<p>My photographic career really started in 1986 when I met Robert Doisneau, a brilliant photographer, to whom I was the assistant for 15 years within the Rapho agency. He is the reason why I became socially involved and developed a passion for people. I have always felt the need, as a person and as a citizen to be on the side of the weakest, but I understood that photography could serve a cause when I was working with Doisneau. I consider myself as a humanist, militant and committed photographer.<br \/>\nIn 1991, I was awarded the Niepce Prize, more commonly known as the &#8220;Goncourt of Photography&#8221;. Thanks to this recognition, I received more photographic commissions and could publish my work. I was lucky enough to meet Robert Delpire, a renowned publisher, who trusted me and has published all my books since then. I worked actively on the issues associated with serious exclusion, poverty, disability, city suburbs, and old age. I also wrote a book on Paris in 1997.<br \/>\nI cooperate extensively with associations or foundations. I worked with film cameras and in black and white for quite a while. Today, with Fuji cameras, I use Lightroom to get the same high-quality black-and-white rendering as before. In 2014, I received a grant from the National Centre of Plastic Arts (centre National d\u2019Arts plastiques) to work over a long period of time with people who had lived on the streets for a long time and had found new homes. The first part of this work was exhibited during the Arles Photography Festival (Rencontres de la Photographie d\u2019Arles) in 2014. I&#8217;m still passionately working on this assignment.<br \/>\nWhy am I interested in the poor, the outsiders of all kinds? What are my motivations? How can I manage to live with these people for such a long time? To answer these questions, I would say without a doubt that the subjects of my assignments are the true challenges of my life, that I&#8217;m here on a mission and that I feel perfectly balanced and happy serving these causes.<br \/>\nAs a conclusion, I would say that I adopted Eugene Smith&#8217;s famous quote: &#8220;Photography is a small voice [&#8230;] I believe in it&#8221;.<br \/>\nwww.jeanlouiscourtinat.fr<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"xphotographerspost__about_texts\">\n<p>I first used a FUJIFILM X-T1, and now I use a FUJIFILM X-T2 with XF14mmF2.8. This camera perfectly matches my photographic approach. Small, discreet, lightweight, responsive, it allows me to go unnoticed by people. I had been looking for such a camera for a long time. As for the XF27mm, it is extremely fast even at 2.8. 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