Gabor Szilasi never aims his camera at anything or anyone. With his legendary, gentle curiosity, he calmly sets up and waits for the desire for the photograph to spark between himself and his subjects, among them Pascal Bouchard, Marie Tremblay, Andor Pasztor, Chiara Franconi ... A veritable ethnocultural portrait of Quebec and Europe, his photographs document the impermanence of an era, the transience of people and the places they inhabit.
For more than fifty years, Gabor Szilasi has focused his sensitive eye on the present and captured, in 1/125 of a second, the importance of bearing witness to the ephemeral expression of human nature.
Gabor Szilasi was nominated by Gaëtane Verna, director, Musée d'art de Joliette, Joliette, Quebec.