Gilbert Garcin

Gilbert Garcin was born in La Ciotat in June 1929. He was not particularly interested in photography, and managed a factory which sold lamps. When he retired, he participated in a photography contest, and won the first prize, which allowed him to go to a Photomontage training course organized by the photographer Pascal Dolémieux during the Rencontres d'Arles in 1992.^[1]

The technique fascinated him, and he began at 65 years old a photographer career, always using the same technique in a rather surrealist technique.^[2] He became very well known worldwide for his very particular style.^[3]

His photographs always used papercuts of his own figure and sometimes the figure of his wife, integrated in a surreal background.^[4][5][6]