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Ricoh meets Fujifilm

What an enigmatic title! What these two brands have in common is that they are closely linked to Street Photography. But they’re not the only ones. There are also other iconic brands like Leica. If you see a street photographer in the street, chances are they have a Leica, Ricoh or Fujifilm. Leica is a benchmark for photojournalism and street photography. Ricoh’s GRs were made popular by a certain Daido Moriyama. As for Fujifilm, they are the latest to appear on the very juicy Street Photography market. The X100 series, which came onto the market in 2011, needs no introduction. Fujifilm was largely inspired by the Leica M for its X100 series. There are other brands, of course, but these three clearly dominate the market.

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Good Morning … Reunion !

I know you’ve probably been waiting to see the photos I took in Vietnam during our recent trip, but I thought it would be a good idea to start 2025 with a few photos of the streets of Saint-Denis, where most of my work is done. It’s not even a week since we landed after a journey of almost 24 hours through the airports of ConDao, Saigon and Bangkok. I’ll come back later on to this trip, which went beyond my expectations. Not only in terms of the places we visited, but also photographically speaking.

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Last Blog of 2024

We’re in the middle of preparations, not for New Year’s Eve 2024, but for our imminent departure for Vietnam! On the evening of the 1st, we head for Bangkok before catching a connecting flight to Saigon. The journey will be a little long, as we’ll be in transit in Bangkok for almost 9 hours… You know when you’re looking for the cheapest plane tickets possible, you’re prepared to put up with lousy waiting times to make a few hundred euros. That was back in May when I bought the tickets that cost us over €5500 (!!!). Today I’m thinking that I should have dropped the extra €200 or so to avoid having to wait 9 hours in Bangkok. A lesson to remember for next time…

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Looking back to the year 2024

Last year I didn’t write a blog to present my work over the past year. It has to be said that we left just after Christmas to spend the last few days of the year in Thailand. We spent an incredible 15 days in Bangkok, Chiang Mai and Phuket Island. The return to everyday life was complicated. I’m talking about photography, of course. After this enchanted interlude in Thailand, Saint-Denis seemed very bland and empty… But you live where you live!

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Dealing with confrontation

This photo was taken at the end of June at the marché du Chaudron, the largest fairground market in Saint-Denis. The fairground stalls are always the same. In the photo, you can see all the remedies on sale at the stall. I found the writing very amusing. What also attracted me at the time were the giant spoons and the broom. Who has a mouth as big as that?

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Street calling

It’s been a long time since I’ve written a blog, and even longer since I’ve actually done any street photography. It’s been a bit of a refrain over the last few years. There’s a lot of downtime during the year when I don’t get out onto the streets of Saint-Denis due to a lack of inspiration or desire. It was the same thing last year, and it seems to me that it was around the same time. I haven’t done much since last July. I haven’t stopped completely, but I haven’t been assiduous and there’s nothing really exciting to report. However, I’ll try to post a little slideshow of some of the photos I took during this period on YouTube.

 

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Layers & gestures

Sunday 28 July. I had ticked this date because there were festivities organised by the Chinese community in Saint-Denis to celebrate Guan Di, a Chinese warrior who has attained the status of Chinese deity. He is also revered in other Asian countries such as Japan and Korea. The festivities were spread over several days, but I wasn’t available and I wanted to take Gwen and the children to hang out for a while late on Sunday morning. Before that, I had a tennis match scheduled that lasted longer than expected, so in the end we didn’t get down to Saint-Denis from our mountain until after midday and the boys were seriously hungry. A hungry kid doesn’t care about any festivities or demonstrations. All he cares about is eating!

 

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What happened to the Street scene ?

Like every year, I wanted to inflict on you some photos taken during the holidays with the children. Just to make up for my lack of inspiration to write. But then I read a very interesting blog by Alex Coghe in which he reacted to an article written by Michael Ernest Sweet which took stock of the Street Photography ‘scene’, claiming that the hype had died down and that there were fewer and fewer blogs or sites devoted to Street Photography. This article was written in 2020 … Oh shit! And yet I’ve spent the last 4 years doing what I do best, which is walking the streets and capturing moments in life. Funnily enough, it seems to coincide with my departure from Aix-en-Provence. I didn’t think my departure would cause such a cataclysm!

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What’s up Doc ?

That’s it! I’ve sold my Fujifilm X100F! I was asking 750€ for it and I let it go for 700€ to a guy who wanted to start out in Street Photography in the south of Reunion Island. It was quite fun to talk to someone about the practice. I think the last time I did that was with a young girl who wanted to interview me because she was doing a book project to validate her Graphic Design studies and as she loved street photography, she had worked on it. That brings me back to 2017! Basically, it had been 7 years since I’d last spoken to someone about Street Photography. For the last few years, I’ve been living Street Photography. I don’t talk about it any more except when I’m ranting in my Blogs.

 

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Used Fujifilm X100F to sell …

Do you think it’s a joke that I’m doing a Blog because I’m so uninspired? Not really. This week I put up for sale my X100F that I bought just 3 months ago. Quite an investment for me back in the day – €890 for a second-hand camera! I’m putting it back up for sale at €750, negotiable if you know anyone who might be interested. I’ve been trying for weeks, but I still can’t get used to the size and weight of the camera. As far as image quality is concerned, I have nothing to complain about  this Fujifilm. It’s a very good camera, but it’s heavy!

 

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