A spotlight on the curator duo of ‘This Is Not That’

Gallery Duboys based in Paris hosts an exhibition entitled ‘This Is Not That’ of contemporary Indian photography. Here is a look at the curators’ duo who has conceptualized the event:

Dominique Charlet has served as CEO of Getty Images and also as the director of photo-journalism agency Sygma Presse and Taïga Images. Charlet now serves as Photography Art Director of Duboys. His involvement in contemporary photography includes advisory role with various companies and institutions for their photography collections and related events.

On the other hand, for the last more than a decade, Fabien Charuau has been working from India on a host of photo journalism, portraits and photo documentaries. Besides a solo of a couple of collections at Matthieu Foss, he has showed his work at the Voies Off Festival, France, and the Pingyao International Festival, China.

Fabien’s visual identity is defined by the confluence of two cultures; the one he was born in and the one he lives in. As a Hindi-speaking French man who is married to an Indian and who has lived a third of his life in India, he can effectively be seen as a hybrid of the east and the west, having embraced one world without abandoning the other. In his life in Bombay, he lives with the similarities and contradictions thrown up by two very different civilizations.

His photos float in the current of his everyday life in a continuous, inconclusive journey. Be it his documentaries, photojournalism or portraits; his visual language is defined by the way he looks at the body. He responds intuitively to the infinite possibilities of form that the human body can create. His images conjure a pulsating vitality; as if colours, bodies and events are about to collide into each other. This vital chaos in his work comes from the deep impression that life in India continues to leave on him.