FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ATTENTION : Arts Editors and Photography Collectors
LA GALERIE PRESENTS “FRENCH KISS, A LOVE LETTER TO PARIS” BY PETER TURNLEY
Exhibition of photography
Hong Kong, May 2015 – La Galerie on Hollywood Road in Hong Kong is presenting an exhibition of works by Peter Turnley featuring art photographs. The exhibition opens on May 1st and will run until June 7th, with a preview on April 30th.
Peter Turnley felt in love with Paris from the instant he first Ianded in this city in 1975. He has now lived in Paris and photographed the life of this city for almost forty years. As Peter Turnley career in photography took off, he began to travel widely but he would always return home to Paris, his adopted city, to walk with joy and photograph life in the streets and on the riverbanks. Possibly more than in any other city in the world, the visual landscape of Paris presents a constant expression of the beauty and power of love, seen through the tender kisses and embraces that can be publicly seen, literally anywhere, at any time, and always.
Photography is about sharing, with others and ourselves, moments that touch our eyes, and our hearts. Implicit in sharing, like a kiss, is a notion of love, and of giving. “Paris has given me so much, as it has given to so many”, says the artist. “French Kiss, Love letter to Paris”, is an expression of Peter Turnley profound gratitude to this city and to the many people whose paths he has crossed here. “Like a kiss, I offer here an expression of hope and love for our present and our future. “ This black and white exhibition brings also a timeless nostalgic view of Paris, influenced by the time Peter Turnley worked with Robert Doisneau.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Peter Turnley (Born in 1955)
Peter Turnley was born in the U.S., but has lived more than half of his life in Paris (since 1975). He worked as the assistant to the famous French photographer Robert Doisneau in Paris in the early 1980’s.
A graduate of the University of Michigan, the Sorbonne of Paris, and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Paris, Turnley has received Honorary Doctorate degrees from
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the New School of Social Research in New York and St. Francis College of Indiana. He received a Nieman Fellowship from Harvard for the academic year 2000-2001.
Turnley’s photographs have been featured in Newsweek, Harper’s, Stern, Paris Match, Geo, LIFE, National Geographic, The London Sunday Times, VSD, Le Figaro, Le Monde, New Yorker, and DoubleTake. Peter Turnley worked on contract for the Newsweek Magazine from 1986-2001 and as a contributing editor/photographer with Harper’s Magazine from 2003-2007. His work is frequently published in photo essay form in magazines, on major television networks such as CNN, ABC’s “Nightline”, and in online publications, such as The Online Photographer. Turnley’s photographs have been published the world over and have won many international awards including the Overseas Press Club Award for Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad.
Turnley has photographed most of the world’s conflicts of the last decade including the Gulf War-1991, the Balkans (Bosnia), Somalia, Rwanda, South Africa, Chechnya, Haiti, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Kosovo, the war in Iraq- 2003. He witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall and the revolutions in Eastern Europe in 1989, the liberation of Nelson Mandela and the end of apartheid in South Africa. He was in New York at “Ground Zero” on Sept 11, 2001, New Orleans during the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, Haiti after the tragic earthquake of 2011, and Egypt during the toppling of Hosni Mubarak in 2011. Turnley has produced portraits and covered many of the modern world’s most influential people including Obama, Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Putin, Mandela, Arafat, Schroeder, Gaddafi, Chirac, Clinton, Reagan, Bush Sr, Lady Diana, and Pope Jean Paul II among others.
He presently lives in both New York and Paris, and has previously published six books of his work: French Kiss – A Love Letter to Paris, Beijing Spring, Moments of Revolution, In Times of War and Peace, Parisians, and McClellan Street.
La Galerie invites all media on April 30th to the preview of the exhibition from May 1st to June 7th.
For further information and images, contact the gallery and visit the links below.
LA GALERIE CONTACTS Mr Cyril Delettre [email protected] Ms Marie-Florence Gros [email protected] www.lagalerie.hk
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LA GALERIE FOUNDERS
Cyril Delettre started as photo journalist working with celebrities for national magazines (Paris Match, L'Express, VSD, Les Cahiers du Cinéma, Le Nouvel Observateur, le Figaro Magazine, Balthaza) before starting to develop artistic projects. For the past few years he has shared his time between art exhibitions, large corporate projects in France (including monumental works for French railway stations) and directing short movies. Marie-Florence Gros worked in business consulting before starting an artistic career. First recognized as a lyricist (working in collaboration major French artists), she also found success as author with her first book “Tout contre”. She has a PhD in 18th- Century French Literature (Paris Sorbonne) and an MBA from the HEC Paris Business School. With a very sharp and artistic vision, she collaborates on different projects associating texts and visual art such as photography (exhibition Paris/New York, Grandes Lignes with the photographs of Cyril Delettre) or short movies.
ABOUT LA GALERIE
Located at 74 Hollywood Road in Central, La Galerie is one of Hong Kong’s first art spaces specializing in high-standard art photography and prints. Founders Marie- Florence Gros and Cyril Delettre have been “totally seduced by the energy driving the city” and want to share with the public their passion and expertise at this new gallery, right in the heart of the Asian art scene. La Galerie will cover and share all aspects of photography, from fine art photography to selected press photographs. The gallery will present international recognized masterpieces, as well as a collection of growing artists. La Galerie aims to become quickly the reference where collectors, investors and photography lovers will be able to learn, share, experience, live and buy art photography. La Galerie will not only be a gallery, but a space to be interactive for all artistic minds.
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