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“My Olympics” opens at FotoDiary Saturday

Kathryn Boughton

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KENT—Stunning images emerged second by second during the 2024 summer Olympic games. French photographer and Kent resident Cedric Gairard was not in his native Paris, but felt the urge to bring the spirit of the Olympics close to his Kent home. 

An impressionistic image of a gymnast is among the series on view at FotoDiary Gallery through September. Photo contributed

Saturday, Aug. 24, 1 to 4 p.m., he will present an Olympics games day for all ages at his tiny gallery, FotoDiary, at 3 Barns Rd. 

Inside the gallery will be “My Olympics,” and impressionistic exhibition of more than a dozen colorful prints that will be on view until late September. FotoDiary invites patrons to commission unique, signed prints. For more information, email cedric.gairard@fotodiarykent.com

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Kathryn Boughton
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Kathryn Boughton has been editor of the Kent Dispatch since its digital reincarnation in October 2023 as a nonprofit online publication. A native of Canaan, Conn., Kathryn has been a regional journalist for more than 50 years, having been employed by both the Lakeville Journal and Litchfield County Times as managing editor. While with the LCT, she was also editor of the former print Kent Good Times Dispatch from 2005 until 2009.

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