Time-Keepers, Luc Debraine

Les “Garde-Temps” (Time-Keepers) here are clocks that keep precious time: those of memories.

 They have been stopped short by natural or human disasters, from the Titanic to Hiroshima, from Buchenwald to the towers of the World Trade Center. They still display fateful moments. 

They were also stopped voluntarily to mark a revolution, a liberation, a singular event.

 These timepieces are sometimes out of order, but their silence says a lot about extraordinaries destinies. They are kept in public places, museums or private homes. They are united by a will: not to forget. Through photography and text, Luc Debraine composes a fresco of these silent witnesses of history.