Stef van Breugel

(Director of Museum Hilversum, in the Netherlands)

He wrote the preface to my book "A Coronew World"

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Photography is a muse for Gregory Herpe, as is the pen for the writer and the violin for the concertmaster.

However, for someone from Paris, it is more than romance. It is a necessity.

Gregory Herpe does what you expect from a photographer and brings the world to us.

He photographed IRA soldiers in Belfast, girls in Cambodia who escaped prostitution, not to mention Barcelona.

He got to know the Achterhoek NL through his lens and became fascinated by its landscapes that receive too little attention in NL.

He recently photographed the Covid-19 pandemic, which unfortunately we can no longer ignore.

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Gregory Herpe is a photographer, par excellence, because you can recognize him by his approach.

He creates an image, accompanies it with emotion and creates a new world with it.

His own universe that he opens up to us.

We know that world, for example through the printed media and television, but with Herpe it gets a different accent,

a new emphasis and thus a different identity.

In Africa he photographed the lion for seven years. Surprised and amazed he leaves us behind. Do we live in that world?

Whaw. In that case, we are going to love the world through his photos. In the case of prostitution in Indochina, we shamefully turn away.

The photo is a quote of the time.

The photographer makes an image of something. An image that we did not yet know.

 

Gregory Herpe wants to make me feel and experience more. Take a look at how he lets his camera speak.

Is it his camera? Isn't it his hands, his empathy with which he reads in, senses, captures and stages people and animals?

Gregory Herpe's black and white is not a contrast, but a natural sequence of colors.

The white is a blank sheet and a new beginning. The black is an impenetrable, worn-out environment.

 

Gregory Herpe moves between those extremes with his photography, simply because it belongs to man and his world.

 

 

 

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