(Visit http://anamorfose.be/Contemporary-Art-Photography/Dominique-Houyet/Portraits-of-French-Writers-c-11_67_70.html for more information) Consumed by two passions, photography and literature, I was able to fuse the two together the day that I chanced upon a small bookshop in Lille. The staff there and the architectural environment literally floored me. At the antipodes of conventional bookshops which generally sell just about anything to attain a large sales turnover, the feeling here was one of true respect for the written word, a real love of literature. Every display, every table covered in books seemed to reflect the personality of the booksellers. Each week writers who came to discuss their latest novels gathered in this bookshop -- a big moment every time. And whilst listening to these often rather fascinating writers I began to take photographs of them. I did this for two years. I limited myself to photographing them from a distance, intervening as little as...