Guy Le Querrec's best photograph: a flying handbag at a monastery in China

‘The sign means happiness. You close your eyes, walk towards it, and try to touch the centre. I can’t explain the handbag’This photo is an enigma. Even I can’t say for sure what’s happening. I didn’t know what I had taken at the time. It was only afterwards, when I developed the film, that I saw the handbag.It was April 1984 and I was on assignment in China, which was just opening up to foreigners. I had no particular commission, though: I could shoot whatever