AMERICA AMERICAS

In 1971, Alain Keler, 26, arrived in the United States for love, to join an American woman I met on a trip to Asia. A one-way ticket to New York and a briefcase of his photographs under his arm, he met John G. Morris, legendary New York Times director of photography, for whom the The young photographer's work is not "very exciting", but it invites him nevertheless to stay in touch with him. Twenty-six years later, it is the same man who will call him to tell him he is the winner of the W. Eugene Smith Award – the most prestigious award given to a photojournalist, and of which Alain is one one of the only French players, along with Gilles Peress in 1984, to be a starter. Alain Keler In his free time, he photographs the city from the height of crowds, in the streets of New York or Washington during Richard Nixon's second inauguration, between protests and celebrations. His gaze sharpens on the city American before her return to France and her time at the Sygma.America agency Americas is a found work. Some negatives were not developed for the first time in the late 1990s and others only in the year last. This book invites you to immerse yourself in the images of a young enthusiast who will become the photographer we know. Text taken from the presentation of The exhibition at the Fisheye gallery (Paris)Alain Keler covered many events in the world (Middle East, Central America, etc.) for the agency Sygma. He won the 1986 Grand Prix Paris Match for photojournalism. for his report Ethiopia in the rain and World Press Photo in the nature category. Having become an independent photographer, his personal work on minorities in the former communist world earned him the prestigious W. Eugene Smith in 1997. He has collaborated with numerous French and foreigners including Géo, Time Magazine, Newsweek, L'Express, Marie-Claire.Member of the MYOP agency, he published a book in 2018 which traces his entire career, Journal of a photographer, published by Éditions de Juillet.