Photographer Guillaume Zuili: sunshine and shadows
Finding the magic Photographic works by Guillaume Zuili at the Palos Verdes Art Center “Eyes on L.A,” by Guillaume Zuiliby Bondo Wyszpolski When he was a youngster growing up in Paris, Guillaume Zuili watched American serials like “Mission: Impossible” and “Mannix.” He recalls one of the “Mission: Impossible” episodes in which Peter Graves, the actor who played Mr. Phelps, receives his next assignment. “He’s in San Pedro by the Vincent Thomas Bridge,” Zuili says as we sit in the garden outside of his Seventh St. studio, “taking the phone call to get his next mission. And now I live in Pedro” — a serendipitous turn of events that makes him smile. “Those images,” he says, “really stuck with me when I was a kid.” Zuili emigrated to the States in 2001, married to an American woman who was missing home, missing Los Angeles. By then he’d already established himself as a serious photographer, and says that it all began in 1986 when he traveled to India and spent 10 years there taking pictures. His inspiration was a 1959 film by Fritz Lang (a two-part work: “The Tiger of Eschnapur” and “The Indian Tomb”). This led to the publication of the first of six monographs and an invitation to join…
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