Louons maintenant les plus fragiles

Looking back over the career and work of Jean-Louis Courtinat, this book explores the many facets of forty years of social photography. With a sense of humility, the photographer has never ceased to record the ‘tiny lives’ of unimportant, weakened people, those who are not totally aware, and those who are dying. In a moving gallery of portraits, he shows us how great the ‘most fragile’ are, and how much they have to teach us. These photographs and the accompanying two-voice commentary pose profoundly human and contemporary questions to our festive and wealthy societies.

‘ By following Jean-Louis Courtinat, I have observed how he works among his “ fragile old people ”, his “ homeless people who have come off the streets ”, how he enters into their lives as a brother, as a friend, as someone involved and deeply alive. ’ Bertrand Éveno