Author: Arnaud De Grave

Arnaud De Grave (a.k.a. mostly Hern42) came rather late to photography, like everything he does nowadays. Before that he was busy being good at school, or rather he was not enough of a rebel not to be... But the times, they are a-changing, as one says. He became interested in photography because he was not good enough in skateboarding, starting both around 2000 at the age of 25, which is, he knows, rather very late. So that kills the usual myth of having been given an ancient camera by one's father at age five and never looking back again. However he was indeed offered his first "real" camera by his father, albeit at a later time. Then started a long progression of travelling and shooting and collecting older and weirder cameras, buying more and more films and exposing them. Getting more and more addicted to producing images which would fit within whatever fancy he got inside his ever oh-so fastly (ghastly?) changing mood. He created many things in order to have more opportunities to perform photography: the French association BOP, the Copenhagen based group CCCP (which stood for "Color Climax Copenhagen Photographers"), etc. He prefers rather long projects based on travelling and social behaviour in the gonzo way (in reference to Hunter Thompson but without too much of the drug intake, not the Muppet Show...) "When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk." - Tuco / The good, the bad and the ugly (1967)

A trip in the jungle with my dear friend Holga

2006/07/112015/02/03 Categories: Archives · ReportageLeave a comment

All june I was away from… everywhere, lost in the middle of nowhere, a nowhere that looked a lot like the jungle. As it was more or less a photographic trip I chose carefully my cameras. And then everybody yells: “why Holga then!?!?” First of all I do whatever I want, it is my trip. Second, Holga is my sweetest friend. Third, even with ants crawling inside, Holga still takes pictures, I mean, no worse than usual… No kidding, when you know that even the famous bic ball-pens stop working after less than a week in the jungle, you don’t…

French farming

2006/05/272015/02/03 Categories: Archives · Land PortraitsLeave a comment

You cannot always go in holidays on the other side of the globe, even if attractive as an idea it is also I believe quite misleading. Indeed, one fail to see the beam in one’s eye but can very well think that it is more beautiful in a country in “-stan”. The French countryside is very nice, full of farms, fields, animals (and crap of course). I had the possibility to take a couple of shots in a traditional farm, and also to go close to the animals, while experiencing the hospitality of these wonderful warm people. How come they…

Music is good for your health!!

2005/05/182015/02/03 Categories: Archives · ReportageLeave a comment

I listen to an awful lot of music, and many people might argue to a lot of noise as well. They overlap anyway… I love to go to show and of course shoot a few pictures… Then the more I do it the more I like small venues, obscure smoky clubs. More than big halls or stadiums, and not only because I cannot get a backstage pass for the Rolling Stones (and the fact that I do not like them as nothing to do with it…). Also because there are less big muscular guys to tell you bad things, and…