“By comparing it to other forms of artistic expression, George Braque pointed out that photography had freed poetry, among other things, from the need to tell a story.

Even if contemporary photography very often deviates from this common sense remark, it is true that it is the art of photographing that is responsible for telling the story of life… Its own and that of those around us. Some have made their life a work of images, others have leaned on it to broaden their subject, but each photograph "tells” by testifying to an author, a thought, an environment and therefore ‘a period.

Reality caught up with us brutally on March 17, 2020… for sixty days… and from this imposed confinement, from this “dystopia on the move” we drew the material for this Fanzine. Five times Twelve, the minutes of an elapsed hour and a duodecimal symbol rich in meanings… Isolation and the passage of time. From home and with the means at hand, the photographers of the Gobelins school (class of 2021) reacted in their own way, reporting without worrying about technical constraints. By its immediacy, its free and alternative approach, the risography printing of this Fanzine responded to this desire to put images without make-up, without filters.

“It’s in the box”… Photography is an art of confinement, a perception placed in detention. By analogy, this imposed sanitary “between oneself” has revealed many photographic possibilities, to reflect in images on what the world gives us to see. Even from the place which is only the smallest common denominator, at home.

It may also be an opportunity to make George Braque lie and to put a little poetry back into our immediate reality… in short, to rise up against the untenable dogma of surveillance and figures.“ - RNVP