Éditions Bessard

Paris / France

Pierre Bessard – Photographer & Publisher By Douglas Stockdale / http://thephotobook.wordpress.com/ I first became aware of the Parisian photographer, Pierre Bessard, when I had the opportunity to review his photobook, Wuhan Boiler Company Workers, an intriguing industrial landscape photobook sponsored by a Chinese company, Wuhan Boiler Company Workers. I will have to admit, I was initially very skeptical about a “company book”, but it turns out that Pierre had the artistic freedom to investigate this industrial space in China. Subsequent to that review on my next trip into Paris, we decided that we meet, which we have now managed to do on several occasions, and in the process discovering that Bessard has authored two other photobooks with a third in progress; currently in print are Behind China’s Growth published by timezone 8 and Journal de Chine published by Editions Glenat. As I became to know him as an excellent chef, a wine connoisseur with a wonderful cave that great bottles keep appearing from, a photographer, photographic print and photobook collector, and I also discovered that he was starting his own photographic book publishing company... copyright 2011 Douglas Stockdale http://thephotobook.wordpress.com/