"Group photography has traditionally been invested with a social function: reserved for certain occasions of collective life, it illustrates the ability of the people photographed to integrate into a group and confirms their unity. Guy Hersant gathers people linked by a profession, a passion, sometimes by chance, and photographs them. When all the gazes converge towards the lens, he shoots. The point is not to photograph by surprise but to leave his models the possibility of showing themselves as they wish to be perceived. Some are a little laughing, others vaguely worried, all are solemn." Laurence Perrigault