Gregory Cattcuss: 2024 Guest photographer
CattCuss is a French photographer based near Paris, he is interested in a documentary approach to social subjects related to absence, rupture, connection.
He studied Engineering and Architecture during which he discovered the artistic world and photography.
In 2023, he trained in documentary photography at the Spéos school, under the mentorship of the director of photography of POLKA magazine.
Since 2022, he has been documenting the impact of Alzheimer’s disease through the experiences of his father and his son’s entourage. A documentary exercise with a biographical dimension mixing the intimate and the impersonal, depicting anticipatory grief.
website: cattcuss.com
Instagram: @cattcuss
Pain in solitude
Alzheimer’s disease is an incurable neurodegenerative disease that causes the progressive and irreversible loss of mental functions. To date, 1.2 million people are affected in France, 225,000 cases are newly detected each year, including 32,000 people under the age of 65 (3.1%). In addition to the financial cost of treating this disease to ease the daily lives of patients, the emotional, psychological and physical costs endured by more than 1.8 million caregivers are difficult to quantify and little highlighted.
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