Dominique Cruchet

From the artist:  "It was not only when I first started to travel that photography was of prime importance. In my Parisien teenage years I used to spend time at the Cinémathèque du Palais de Chaillot and take photographs in the streets of Paris with friends.

"Later travelling lent itself to this practice and because of this some people have seen in [my] work the eye of a “flâneur”. It was only in 1982 that the desire to study Visual Arts came to me; first at the University of Ottawa and then at the Sorbonne in Paris in Art History. Those years of study confirm the documentary orientation [I had] already taken earlier.

"Sabbatical years from teaching have allowed me to complete some themes and take images of new ones in many different places such as Tunisia, South-East Asia, China, Yemen and the south of France. More recently I have started to use digital photography to work on projection inside and outside on different material."

Work in public collections:  National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Art Bank of Prince Edward Island; Museum of the Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island; Foundation for the Study of Objective Art: Gallery Arcturus, Toronto; Museum of the Post, Paris; Canadian Museum of Civilisation, Quebec; Historical Library of the City of Paris (BHVP) and the Médiathèque of the city of Le Mans.

Select images:  HERE                         Books with Joan Cullen on Blurb:  HERE                 Cruchet+Cullen Blog:  HERE