Cagnat, Drawing or Nothing (Cagnat, le dessin sinon rien)

17,000 drawings, one silence, and a father’s story waiting to be told.

Since the Charlie Hebdo attack, Jean-Pierre Cagnat, a press cartoonist, no longer draws. The National Library of France offered to archive part of his work. After his divorce from his wife, he left his 17,000 drawings in the cellar of his family home, which he no longer lives in. His daughter, Director Alice Cagnat, proposed an arrangement: she would help him sort through his drawings, in exchange for his life story as a man and an artist.