We know him through our television set, but in everyday life, it is behind a camera that the flagship host of TF1 likes to take refuge. Passionate about photography for many years, Nikos Aliagas has also released an image book, “Le Spleen d’Ulysse”, which brings together the portraits he has captured during his travels. On this occasion, the essential face of the PAF was the guest of Thomas Sotto and Julia Vignali in “Télématin” Wednesday June 21, 2023.
The opportunity to talk about his work and in particular the cover of it: the black and white portrait of an elderly man whose face is marked by time. “I like people who accept the passage of time on their face”explained Nikos Aliagas on the morning set of France 2. “So surgery isn’t really your thing?” », then asked Julia Vignali, intrigued by the words of her guest of the day.
“It’s not that it’s not my thing… I can understand that, if it makes some people feel better…”, replied the host of “The Voice at first before returning to this famous portrait captured during a trip. “But the fact that he does not hide time is also a way of telling himself that he may have found himself and that he did not become someone else and that he found which he basically is, he said. Look, it looks like time has chiselled the hardships and the marks on her face, I find it beautiful, concluded Nikos Aliagas who is therefore not about to give in to the scalpels.
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an introspection
Asked about his trip during which these pictures were taken, Nikos Aliagas also said: “We do a job where we have the impression that time stands still. We are given notoriety, all that is not ours, and at the same time we live it with joy… And I am still learning, every day I learn a little more in the eyes of my children. In the end, do we find Ithaca again, I don’t know, what matters is not the arrival, it’s the journey”a great conclusion!
LZ