#yan morvan

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Yan Morvan, 1993

Excerpt from a sadomasochistic session for Entrevue magazine: The woman in the photo, a bourgeois woman from the upscale neighborhoods, liked to dress up as a mummy before having sex.

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Yan Morvan

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_____Yan Morvan, Bangkok, 1980.

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Piscine du Forum, Claude Nori, Ralph Gibson, Photo © Yan Morvan, 1979

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Beyrouth Ligne verte 1985 © Yan Morvan

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Yan Morvan - Bangkok, 1980

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“Ireland, once an island of 150 Gaelic kingdoms, a colony of England for more than seven centuries, has continued its struggle. In May 1981, Bobby Sands, son of Northern Ireland, and then nine of his comrades, sacrificed their lives, dying on hunger strike as part of their struggle for independence.

In 1803, Robert Emmet, an Irish nationalist and rebel leader, was found guilty of high treason against the British crown and shot. What had changed over the years? Nothing, neither people nor events. Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady, was not moved by Bobby Sands' plight.

Historical references dating back to the 17th century would quote the cruel Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland, who, ironically, appeared in Irish literature in James Joyce's Ulysses: “What about the bigot Cromwell who put the women and children of Drogheda to the sword with the biblical text 'God is love' pasted around the mouth of his cannon? "

 Ireland, this land of passion, indomitable and wild, is recorded in the photos I took at the time of Bobby Sands' fatal hunger strike.

Those weeks that I lived in Derry and Belfast, living with the Irish rioters, photographing the tension, despair, faith and courage of the Irish people, using the camera as a weapon to serve their cause”.

Yan Morvan - contemporary documentary photographer