Glued on the stone columns along the arcade in Carpentras was the reproduction portraits from Louis Rama
who earlier in the year had an exposition of portraits he created of WWI.
Louis Rama called the exposition "Our Faces 1914" their memories.
The exhibition was of portraits of soldiers curated from old photographs entrusted by families from Carpentras and the surrounding area. The families, inhabitants of Carpentras, had fathers, grandfathers, great grandfathers, who have been caught up in the agony of war. The project of this exhibition was to give them a face, to revive their memory in the face to face of drawings and paintings, and thus to make their presence appear amongst them, to make it evident in the walls of their town, as in their collective history that their stories, their lives are still amongst them.
The other day after the brocante, Yann and I went to Lunch as we walked to our favorite bakery in the area (JOUVAUD) we saw these amazing eye-catching portraits, we read their descriptions, their stories. I instantly took photos of each of them and shared them to my stories on Instagram knowing later I would write about them here.
Along each portrait is a hand-me-down memory, a tale, a snippet of each man's story from their families memory bank. The reflective memories not only tell a part of their lives in some way reflects our journey, our struggles, our dreams, our lives…
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