Childhood

• Photographer
  Robert Bared
• Agency / Studio
  Robert Bared
• Technical Info
  F/13 - 1/40e sec - ISO 1600 - 70 mm
• Photo Date
  26/09/2024

A very rainy day in Paris. On the stairs leading from the Centre Pompidou forecourt to rue Rambuteau, a group of children accompanied by two adults climb the steps. Apparently on a school outing, the group may have been at the Centre Pompidou, where a number of activities are on offer for children. Their parkas, with their bright and varied colors, reminded me of a child's coloring page. All in all, this is a photo of children wearing the mark of their very special art. They are the characters and artists in this fragment of childhood.

I live in Paris since 1975. I attended Sorbonne University (literature, art history). Working as editor and managing editorial projects, I had to collaborate with photographers, then to make portraits and book-covers myself (Opale Agency, Symétrie Editions). Over the last fifteen years, I’ve devoted my time to writing and photography. As to my first exhibits, dating from 2011, I owe them to Irma Toudjian (Cagliari, Italy). Today, I collaborate in Paris with Chris Boïcos Fine arts. My taste is for an esthetic of beauty – a sensitive beauty, neither cold nor futile – and for an ideal of harmony.