Traverso mentioned that regardless of the much less relaxed environment, he nonetheless loves the give-and-take he has together with his topics. “If the star desires to play with the photographer, it’s a pleasure,” he mentioned. The People are significantly good at it, he added, and know “they need to make additionally a present when they’re in entrance of a photographer.”
David Lisnard, the mayor of Cannes, who has recognized Traverso because the Nineties, mentioned in an electronic mail that his contributions to the pageant have been “immense.”
“By means of his pictures, we witness the evolution of the pageant,” Lisnard mentioned. “It’s an exhaustive, exact assortment with each creative and historic worth.”
Till just lately, Traverso would spend the remainder of his time taking freelance pictures for native newspapers like Good-Matin, which described him in a 2016 article as “the white wolf,” who was typically noticed driving round city on his motorbike and smoking cigarettes. In response to Good-Matin, he and members of his household had labored with the paper since 1945.
Thierry Frémaux, the director of the pageant, mentioned in an electronic mail that the work of the photographers has been essential to the pageant’s success, and that Traverso, whom he has recognized since 2001, “has a particular place on the planet of images: He’s from Cannes and he embodies a unprecedented lineage and household.”
Subsequent 12 months will likely be Traverso’s fiftieth pageant, “if God and Thierry Frémaux need,” he mentioned. However he’s in any other case targeted on his household’s legacy, and its huge archive that features about 200,000 pageant photographs. He has sometimes displayed a few of them in exhibitions in different cities, together with New York, London and Tokyo.
