Dernièrement, en pleine crise du Coronavirus j’ai eu l’honneur de répondre à l’interview du Pride Photo Award, un concours photo sur le thème des droits de la communauté LGBT. L’organisation du Pride Photo Award a demandé aux photographes ayant gagné le concours de répondre à 5 questions et de réaliser un auto-portrait d’eux pendant la crise du Coronavirus.
Voici en dessous mon interview en anglais!
Introducing our first submission; Jean-Jérôme Destouches, Madrid. Pride Photo Winner, 2014.
1. What are you working on right now?
I am giving online photography workshops and I’ve just created Verum Studio (Truth, in latin). Verum studio specializes in giving workshops about Fake News in school, companies and NGOs. In few weeks, we launch our Youtube Chanel.
2. Your quarantines outfit?
I act if everything were normal. So, I use casual clothes.
3. Tips for sharing work and staying present as a photographer during these times?
I strongly believe that working online [eg, workshops] will be the next steps for many photographer and creators. The crisis we are dealing with shows to many that following a workshop online is not cheap as they used to think. I also add Instagram stories, even old, that I had never shown before.
4. What does quarantine look like in your location?
I’ve been in Madrid for nearly four years. Unfortunately, we have a huge death rate from Covid-19. Quarantine means you are not even allowed to do running outside. For me, it is harder because my wife and son are stuck in Argentina and they can’t go home.
5. Favourite image you have taken?
This is still the one belonging to my “God loves Gay” story. You can see the gay pastor and a transexual faithful touching themselves by the tip of their fingers. This scene should be painted on the Sistine Chapel.
6. Tell us about your self-portrait:
Despite being in quarantine, technologies and meditation give me a lot. Technology because I can still work thanks to it, and meditation because it helps me a lot to deal with this particular and stressful situation.