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With her introspective personality, Anna herself confesses to being shy, yet she radiates a steady, solid confidence. An optimist, fear does not hold her back from exploring things that society often prefers to ignore. She has an inner strength that reason cannot understand. She believes in nothing in particular and in everything in general, the result of all the beliefs she has encountered. She is protected by no God, but understands all ideas, rejecting the coercive rules and codes of religions, imposed in order to dominate society.
For Anna, photography and photojournalism are channels to understand the world and its inhabitants. She readily admits to expressing herself, manifesting her personality, through her documentary work, through her reports, which help her to appreciate and fall deeply in love with the places she visits, because she is drawn, above all, to people, and she is interested in seeing how societies work. That is why Anna Boyé portrays unknown stories, and she captures them in a way (and this is not a cliché!) that only a woman's eye could achieve. She regrets the inexorable fact that the image of an instant becomes the immediate past and that the future is written just a second later, but she is convinced that time is an illusion, merely a guideline. She interiorises the information that she receives from photography, building up a wealth of sensations and experiences.
Anna has visited rich countries and well-to-do societies, but she has also travelled to poor, very poor lands which western wealth has passed by but where, nevertheless, she has seen the dignity of the men and women who live in them. Everywhere she has gone, she has met people who, perhaps without understanding the office that has brought her to the edge of the universe, nonetheless have helped her, even protected her. She senses that someone, physically indeterminate, watches over her every step, her every journey, the risk and danger she faces in doing her work as she is driven on by her profound curiosity.
Her eyes, eyes that also speak and listen, burn intensely when she talks about wars and the people who invent them and wage them, and her anger rises even more if anyone tries to justify them with the idea of imposing a democratic future by force of arms. She also considers the military ridiculous, an anachronism, as she shows in her photograph of a soldier sitting astride the gun barrel of a tank, of which the mouth is covered. In The Photographer's Showcase, the
Palau Robert presents part of her work devoted to exploring the world of women through photography. This is "women in a man's world", a world dominated by the force and power of a gun barrel. Five stories about women that take us to the five continents: Matriarchates; Women and God; Mari: Story of a Dream; Japanese Women: Tradition and Globalisation; and Golden Age: Flowers and Violas.
Anna Boyé is a friend to her friends, lifelong friends and new acquaintances alike, with whom she enjoys sincere relations and intimate understanding. As in the best, ancestral, cultures, Anna is hospitable and offers green tea, which is certain to have a beneficial effect, the effect of discovering a photographer engaged with art and beauty, together with an enduring link that binds her to all the people who populate her images. Making time stand still, these subjects are captured, caught forever in Anna Boyé's photographs.