JPM
France, July 2022–Present
JPM holds space for grief and a photographic dialogue with my late father who unexpectedly passed away on February 20, 2022 at age 68 in Toulouse, France.
He was born in Algiers during the Algerian War of Independence, which he experienced first-hand until he moved to France in the early 1960s with his parents and three sisters. He became a photojournalist at Agence France Presse (AFP) in Paris and covered French and international news. While we were close at the end of his life, I sadly did not know him much since my parent separated when I was two years old.
The project fuses pictures of his house as I found it in July and August 2022, after being unable to travel to France for three years. The house was intact but I had little time to sort through it and sell it before flying back to Los Angeles in late August 2022. Grief struck hard.
Additional material comprises: his personal documents, extensive archive of scanned negatives, landscapes he loved, 3D scans of his personal belongings, his–often incomplete–photographic gear, and archival research about the Algerian War of Independence.
Sequencing a collection of such scattered elements is a cathartic way to cope with the silent inner implosion I have experienced grieving him.
This project is developed in the context of the 2024 Penumbra Foundation Long Term Photobook Program, and will culminate in a book dummy in December 2024.
France, July 2022–Present
JPM holds space for grief and a photographic dialogue with my late father who unexpectedly passed away on February 20, 2022 at age 68 in Toulouse, France.
He was born in Algiers during the Algerian War of Independence, which he experienced first-hand until he moved to France in the early 1960s with his parents and three sisters. He became a photojournalist at Agence France Presse (AFP) in Paris and covered French and international news. While we were close at the end of his life, I sadly did not know him much since my parent separated when I was two years old.
The project fuses pictures of his house as I found it in July and August 2022, after being unable to travel to France for three years. The house was intact but I had little time to sort through it and sell it before flying back to Los Angeles in late August 2022. Grief struck hard.
Additional material comprises: his personal documents, extensive archive of scanned negatives, landscapes he loved, 3D scans of his personal belongings, his–often incomplete–photographic gear, and archival research about the Algerian War of Independence.
Sequencing a collection of such scattered elements is a cathartic way to cope with the silent inner implosion I have experienced grieving him.
This project is developed in the context of the 2024 Penumbra Foundation Long Term Photobook Program, and will culminate in a book dummy in December 2024.
![Dad, LCD matrix, Los Angeles, July 2024.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/81564582c869ae2b0996453e312f0be0178d1fcd0b8577097d8c63b8fa4e2db9/2024-07-12-13.19.04__UYO7323_2000px_4x3..jpg)
![Dad, Silver gelatin print enlargement, ca. late 1980s, executed in Los Angeles, July 2024.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/98255f3af3674474e977e5e58a98f2e05e59f9a55615db4f617972ab1c74c219/2024-07-14-13.42.37__UYO7536_4x3_2500px.jpg)
![Dad's archive, Digitized in Bordeaux, France, August 2023.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6a84ec4fd21d820c1cf8ce6f76ed3624b4845fb120966b0ab6170169fc713f94/MULLER_Yogan_JPM_02_2.jpeg)
![Reflections, Saint-Ferréol, Southern France, August 2023.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dfb1b507ec0af35de4fb4c25c2beed147c581c417913860ca789009efb939219/2023-08-02-11.38.30__UYO0136_2500px.jpg)
![Toulouse, France, August 2023.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7cd85cf1f2b308bf2a284bf028f1005458a1fc2b599e7eb6962ed24540b86fd3/2023-07-30-09.50.56__UYO9587_2_2500px.jpg)
![Dad, ca. late 1980s, scanned gelatin silver print, Bordeaux, France, August 2023.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ff908ef4e71016a07dbb9d216e5fa19f74eb87af8682bd4feba0ead2712e71cb/2023-07-20_JPM_Scans_230_2000px.jpg)
![Mom, ca. 1980s, digitized in Bordeaux, France, August 2023.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/60f2cc17e41b52a38a12c361c49ec005c7b8befad5dcd7a830f5c357a5b1f4f9/2023-08-18_JPM_Scans_265.jpg)
![Trips to recycling centers, Toulouse, France, 2022.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9bbaab0bc0d654d70e74cf4b638e2f0df7bdfd88feebe73bf8e2bff4dc222cf9/2022-08-27-11.35.41__JPM4569.jpeg)
![Dad's archive, Bordeaux, August 2023.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0da593128191d8ac838a15fb1aec68df9330f22491107953039f493aed0924c9/MULLER_Yogan_JPM_05.jpeg)
![Dad's archive, scanned negative, unknown event and date, Digitized in Bordeaux, August 2023.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/86b2d3d113a7a4d7daec14eb9075d48ec608e4092ae0efe4fd84ba6af1c5de93/MULLER_Yogan_JPM_17_2500px.jpg)
![Dad's archive, Scanned negatives, date unknown, Digitized in Bordeaux, August 2023.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/59489238e56e1987305efe475901efb6185965fbea7d92cc3b30818619adb227/2023-08-19-13.52.37__UYO0005_2500px.jpg)
![Downtown Toulouse, France, August 2023.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/86402115f98a9ae5fc1801e8eb12cf1e774104c1527decbcef3d7749d8be30d5/MULLER_Yogan_JPM_04.jpeg)
![Dad's house, Toulouse, France, August 2022.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e57598aa8f1959fcc4ae5b21152580d0ff203e97013485e2f7481479f2909542/MULLER_Yogan_JPM_06.jpeg)
![Saint-Ferréol, Revel, France, August 2023.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e0fc109b1c4ef56ef47bb8123f0eb3c7e27157f5ace018c57212d5da5d63bc4/MULLER_Yogan_JPM_07.jpeg)
![Dad's archive, garden, Toulouse, France, ca. 2014.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0603c77d28910bc3c336268f5a679d85d1cca22f4415c33e26d8ab4841bb1112/MULLER_Yogan_JPM_08.jpeg)
![Dad and Mom, 1980s, Digitized in Toulouse, France, July 2022.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/986ecc2f69d4cea9dd6b3276b41893975fe0d82567a672e49f8debb986d02daa/MULLER_Yogan_JPM_09.jpeg)
![Forking paths, Leucate, Southern France, June 2017.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ed5e4979921c0b34e9f4636f017a669fc454280bb5d8fe5802ea5a3619b5997a/MULLER_Yogan_JPM_10.jpeg)
![Dad's Garden, Toulouse, France, July 2022.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c6193a460068db626ea5989a43cab3a4d1f2410af440498012bc1c6b287fa5af/2022-07-28-07.17.08_JPM_4204.jpeg)
![Marie-Dô, Contact sheet from dad's archive, Toulouse, France, July 2022.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bf7f8b98da86d8feeb602c5be23ea6de77433770840b7f90ef1a4a8b53f5f5d7/IMG_1087.jpeg)
![Sister, I and Mom, Bordeaux, late 1980s.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f566413c918ef18749b973d639deafc1294e5bc1729f9ec39d9e65743359ab9f/MULLER_Yogan_JPM_13.jpeg)
![Dad's archive, gelatin silver print, unknown event.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/771d5f0d4a4866546be40e83158758f71fe83803d64cb0cb99a14b7e691ed6fa/2023-04-20_JPM-SCANS_0082_2000px.jpg)
![Construction site, Downtown Toulouse, August 2023.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fbd813fa875916046e8db3255648de3df58122b225be32ad1a93350a92330598/MULLER_Yogan_JPM_16.jpeg)
![Dad's House, Toulouse, July 2022.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ac553698b815b4bbdb7f903a249ed541c7a6e711403566db4731ad32671a1dc0/2022-08-26-10.42.51__JPM4340.jpeg)
![Dad's kitchen, Toulouse, August 2022.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/21a394fa3a6b9c5036f44b99b1680c207107d52717a41755b47827245e68113c/MULLER_Yogan_JPM_18.jpeg)
![Traffic sign on the way back from the recycling center, Toulouse, August 2022.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e92d9f837f56df47ac730d16a231953a3f88bcdf027792b9c766e7c506eea069/MULLER_Yogan_JPM_19.jpeg)
![Dad working out, Gelatin silver print, ca. early 1980s, Digitized in Bordeaux, France, August 2023.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a839784f51071cdc3dded3042863ce861e5c07987f8bd05c52a016219963a859/MULLER_Yogan_JPM_20.jpeg)