2010, from Autobiography, in my iPad application Horvatland
Between 1983 and 1987, I had problems with my eyesight. This gave me the idea of ‘photographing with my ears’ – in other words of exploring reality with a tape recorder, very much as I had been doing with a camera. I decided that my first subject would be photography itself, not as a technique but as a creative process. Hence the idea of ‘talking shop’ with some of the fellow photographers whose work I respected. The hardest part was to put these recordings on paper – which, in my analogy, was the equivalent to editing and printing my photographs. Over the next few years, my eyes were operated on and my sight was sufficiently restored to allow me to return to the camera. So ‘photographing with my ears’ remained an isolated episode. (From my introduction to Entre Vues, published in 1990 by Éditions Nathan, Paris)
1989, Paris, Édouard Boubat, photographer (c)
