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Emmanuel Smague is more "old school" than "high tech". The tools of his trade : a Leica MP, one lens, and loads of film. "I'm always seeking a closeness and proximity to my subjects, which is why I only use a 35mm lens". His camera gives him an excuse to go up to anybody to meet them, and he will choose his destinations with a photography project in mind : the Transsiberian train, the nomadic people in Mongolia, the ragpickers of Cairo, the inhabitants of Chernobyl, prostitutes in Bangladesh...

A book of his photographs taken in Iraqi Kurdistan is published by "Les Editions de Juillet", and is available at this address.

Latest news : as a winner of the "Sur le vif" contest organized by French magazine Réponses Photo, he has been given a FinePix X100 camera and told to bring back some shots : they had to explain to him what a "digital camera" was. The results will be shown in an exhibition at the end of 2011.

Exhibitions

2010 "Old age", EHPAD Pierre-Yvon Trémel, Tréguier.
2009 "Transversales", Little Big Galerie, Paris.
2009 "Le soleil dans les yeux", Le Carré d'Art, Chartres de Bretagne.
2007 "Parenthèses", L'Imagerie, Lannion.
2006 "Portraits of the World", Centre Arthur Rimbaud, Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan.