DAMIEN GUILLAUMEEVENT PHOTOGRAPHER · PARIS

TRADE SHOW PHOTOGRAPHY / REPORTAGE

National Education
at the exhibition.

Paris · Porte de Versailles · November 2023

With Carole Grandjean, then Minister Delegate for Vocational Education and Training.

The stand, activities and encounters: a photographic reportage by Damien Guillaume.

01 / ACTIVITIES

01 / THE ACTIVITY

A gesture.

Showing, explaining, trying things out.

02 / THE RESPONSE

Shared attention.

On the other side: attention and curiosity.

TWO POINTS OF VIEW / ONE REPORTAGE

Photograph the activity.
And the response it creates.

An event is told through reactions as much as actions.

The demonstrationScroll to change perspective ↓

01 / ACTIVITIES

A gesture.

Showing, explaining, trying things out.

The other side of the story ↓

02 / THE RESPONSE

Shared attention.

On the other side: attention and curiosity.

TWO POINTS OF VIEW / ONE REPORTAGE

Photograph the activity.
And the response it creates.

An event is told through reactions as much as actions.

02 / CONVERSATIONS

Meeting at eye level.

Amid the exhibition, a gesture and a glance bring a conversation into the story.

Carole Grandjean talks with visitors around a table at the exhibition.
A hand points to information about vocational secondary education.

03 / KEY MOMENTS

The gesture. And its record.

Signing the document, then presenting it: two complementary views of a key moment.

Documents are signed at a table with visitors in attendance.
A signed document is presented in front of the Onisep backdrop.

04 / THE PRESS

The conversation continues.

Notebooks, phones and attentive faces: conversations with journalists have a rhythm of their own.

Carole Grandjean speaks with journalists holding phones and notebooks.

05 / TOGETHER

The people behind the event.

A portrait seen through a phone, followed by a group photograph: two ways to remember the encounters.

A group portrait takes shape on a phone screen.
A group poses for a photograph in an exhibition aisle.

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