Harry Gruyaert - Still Photographer

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James Ellis Deakins

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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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EPISODE 79 - HARRY GRUYAERT - Still Photographer

Team Deakins speaks with the acclaimed stills photographer Harry Gruyaert. What a great conversation! We learn that when he started, he directed and shot for Flemish TV and he explains why he changed his path and became a stills photographer. He shares the importance of intuition in his work and finding your own way of seeing and style. We love what he does with color so we speak a lot about color and how he uses it, and he speaks of when he would use B&W over color. He also goes into detail about his early work in Morocco and how he relates to the subjects of his photographs. He shares what he was thinking when shooting specific shots and tells a wonderful story about his photo with the Magritte painting. He’s an artist that works for his own pleasure without concerning himself about how people will react and we certainly love the results he achieves!

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Team Deacons podcast. This podcast is a dialogue between
0:11.3	Roger and James Deacons often joined in the conversation by a guest.
0:16.3	It's very informal and we never know where it will go. We're connecting through Zoom so bear that in mind when you hear the audio.
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0:40.0	POD at Roger Deacons.com.
0:43.0	Today we have the pleasure of speaking with a renowned stills photographer.
0:48.0	We're great fans of his work which always elicits an inner response and his images are diverse.
0:55.0	We're looking forward to hearing his thoughts on visual imagery.
0:58.6	We're happy to welcome Harry Grew Art today.
1:02.2	Thank you Harry for doing this. Welcome, thank you so much for making time for us.
1:06.2	Thank you. Thank you. We'd like to start with a question, how did you get to where you are today? Is it something you always knew you wanted to do or did you take another path?
1:17.0	What is your story?
1:19.0	Well, I was very lucky. I always knew the only thing interested me was photography and film.
1:25.8	So from very young I had the advantage of because my father was working at Geward, which became Agfa.
1:34.0	So at home there was always a Rolex hanging around in a Puyar 60mm because he was testing films.
1:42.0	And so I had easy access to that but
1:46.4	strangely enough my father didn't want me to become a photographer because he didn't
1:52.0	think it was a very serious business in use of service and he thought
1:54.9	was not very serious people.
1:56.9	So, you actually get a proper job.
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