Funny, no?
TADAOCERN /// BLOW JOB
☁ TADAOCERN
Thursday, 29 November 2012
Sunday, 25 November 2012
ROBBY CAVANAUGH
ROBBY CAVANAUGH is a self taught photographer based in Southern California. He was born on April 26th, 1988 in the US. His fine-art based work began in 2010 and has already been recognized internationally, being featured in numerous media worldwide. During the past year, his emerging work has won him numerous international awards and publications.
He strives to create works that transcend the reality we all see, to a reality we can all feel. Robby’s vision for his photography lies on the edge of dreams, where the surreal meets the material.
☁ ROBBY CAVANAUGH
FRANÇOIS XAVIER SAINT GEORGES
THESE ARE PICTURES OF A VIDEO, YOU HAVE TO WATCH ON THE ARTIST'S WEBSITE HERE.
Well, I'm sorry to break it to you but FRANÇOIS XAVIER SAINT GEORGES is the party pooper. This series called THE WORST IS YET TO COME is the pessimist voice of positive thoughts. And it is well depicted that once the negative thinking occurs, it completely burns down the positive. Just like Lucifer. Lesson learned, stick to positive and don't ever let one once of negative get to you... Or else you'll just burn down!
☁ FRANÇOIS XAVIER SAINT GEORGES
Thursday, 22 November 2012
CHRISTOPHE JACROT
CHRISTOPHE JACROT /// STATEMENT
In my opinion, there are two ways of capturing the world for a photographer; on the one hand grasping its horror, and on the other sublimating it. I have chosen the second. More specifically, I like the way rain, snow and “bad weather” awaken a feeling of romantic fiction within me (climatic excesses are another topic).
I see these elements as a fabulous ground for photography, an under-used visual universe with a strong evocative power, and with a richness of subtle lights. This universe escapes most of us, since we are too occupied getting undercover. Man becomes a ghostly silhouette wandering and obeying the hazards of rain or of snow.
My approach is deliberately pictorial and emotional.
☁ CHRISTOPHE JACROT
YVES MARCHAND & ROMAIN MEFFRE
YVES MARCHAND & ROMAIN MEFFRE /// THE RUINS OF DETROIT
Ruins are the visible symbols and landmarks of our societies
and their changes, small pieces of history in suspension.
The state of ruin is essentially a temporary situation that happens at
some point, the volatile result of change of era and the fall of empires.
This fragility, the time elapsed but even so running fast, lead us to watch them one very last time :
being dismayed, or admire, making us wondering about the permanence of things.
Photography appeared to us as a modest way
to keep a little bit of this ephemeral state.
ABOUT THE RUINS OF DETROIT
At the end of the XIXth Century, mankind was about to fulfill an old dream. The idea of a fast and autonomous means of displacement was slowly becoming a reality for engineers all over the world. Thanks to its ideal location on the Great Lakes Basin, the city of Detroit was about to generate its own industrial revolution. Visionary engineers and entrepreneurs flocked to its borders.
In 1913, up-and-coming car manufacturer Henry Ford perfected the first large-scale assembly line. Within few years, Detroit was about to become the world capital of automobile and the cradle of modern mass-production. For the first time of history, affluence was within the reach of the mass of people. Monumental skyscapers and fancy neighborhoods put the city’s wealth on display. Detroit became the dazzling beacon of the American Dream. Thousands of migrants came to find a job. By the 50's, its population rose to almost 2 million people. Detroit became the 4th largest city in the United States.
The automobile moved people faster and farther. Roads, freeways and parking lots forever reshaped the landscape. At the beginning of the 50's, plants were relocated in Detroit's periphery. The white middle-class began to leave the inner city and settled in new mass-produced suburban towns. Highways frayed the urban fabric. Deindustrialization and segregation increased. In 1967, social tensions exploded into one of the most violent urban riots in American history. The population exodus accelerated and whole neighbourhoods began to vanish. Outdated downtown buildings emptied. Within fifty years Detroit lost more than half of its population.
Detroit, industrial capital of the XXth Century, played a fundamental role shaping the modern world. The logic that created the city also destroyed it. Nowadays, unlike anywhere else, the city’s ruins are not isolated details in the urban environment. They have become a natural component of the landscape. Detroit presents all archetypal buildings of an American city in a state of mummification. Its splendid decaying monuments are, no less than the Pyramids of Egypt, the Coliseum of Rome, or the Acropolis in Athens, remnants of the passing of a great Empire.
This work is thus the result of a five-year collaboration started in 2005.
☁ YVES MARCHAND & ROMAIN MEFFRE
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