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Lydie Nesvadba : reframing
Over the course of your career, you have explored a wide variety of fields, some of them at opposite ends of the spectrum. Tell us about the start of your career.
I got my first camera when I was 12. I went on to study photography at Saint-Luc Tournai, then at La Cambre. For me, who grew up in a very academic family, this course was a revelation: five dreamy years, during which I realised that, as well as preparing me for a career, this medium would enable me to express myself as an artist. I then went to on to do many projects and travel. I photographed industrialists in the north of France, travellers and the inhabitants of the Three Gorges Valley in China just before a dam disappeared. All my life, I’ve tried to rediscover the freedom and candour that guided my work at that time.
