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Yannick Cormier was born in 1975 in France. In 1999, he joined the studio Astre in Paris. During this period, he worked as an assistant for Patrick Swirc, William Klein, and many others for magazines such as Vogue and Vanity Fair. Then, he began a career as a documentary photographer and his images have been published in various international magazines (OjodePez Libération, The Sunday Guardian, The Hindu, CNN, etc.). In 2018, he moved to France after 15 years spent in India. The photographer reveals a form of resistance of cultural identity by traditional societies or smaller communities who have not yet been completely anaesthetised by the modern consumerist world. It is an attempt to glimpse at the mythical attitudes of these groups. But more than myths, these images show people playing with the symbols of a culture that is at ease with its traditions and can hence be self-mocking.
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