Photographer - cineastPRESENT WORKS
•2009-2010
"Together" Nostalgia love, a fado music watching a gold dream picture...trying to get a place, a close up, of what is happiness : Exhibition in China (Shen Yang) 2010 Movies : Denys Clerval “Denys Clerval - an Operator's life "52mn - 1 Captation of spectacle " Julien Cottereau - Imagine toi" 75mn - 2009 - "CTR "- Advertising Company 3mn
Work realised during many years and still present « artists and friends’s portraits », 6x7, Color & N/B film. Manual technical effects (cut and pasted setting, painting, writing on the picture, chemical experimentation directly on the ektachrome film). RECENT WORKS • 2006-2008 "Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness"... 53th Montrouge's Fair of Contemporary Art - France
"The street", International Photography Fear of Nancy (april 2008) 2007 "Nature in the city" 3rd Photography Festival Around "Canal de l'Ourq"; with the 19th city hall (25 artists exhibiting in 25 spaces « Desiderata », The urban legend, build and developed around the Max Ehrmann’s poetic page (1872-1945) digital and unstructured experimentation of the picture. « Mosaïk photographs » 1 m70 x 1m20. Support and promotion of Trace Studio and Gallery, San Francisco, USA. Filmed and digital amalgamated works. « Mosaïk photographs », 1 m70 x 1m20 and « Tree for wishes and priors » in “Genie of gardens” with the artists’s group “Le Génie de la Bastille”, City of Paris and Ile de France country. •2004-2006 « Montreal-Paris : so far, so closed», letter to my daughter. One hour in the same place, with the same frame, in one street of Montreal city, slide show of crossing Canadian people connected with 4 Mosaik portraits. (wall sizes 1m70 X 1m20) puzzle portraits – pictures of my Parisian world. Filmed and digital amalgamated works. Writer and director of 3 short movies « Danse la »,10’ « Circus Titus », 11’« Une fraction de seconde »13’ With the support and technical advisers of Denys Clerval, Director of Photography. Worked for « La Sirène du Mississipi » and « Baisers volés » of François Truffaut.
« Paulette Voloir’s portrait, & ONM » 50 years old of associated and humanitarian life. ONM, one performance, one place, the old monastery in Canteleu. Digital work.
• 2001/ 2002/ 2003 « Formentera : island desires» filmed work, color & N/B. Tribute to Beni Trutman, ethnologist photographer and friend, living in the island, dead in 2002. « Cannes 2003, festival » film, N/B following stars….stars durst on the « croisette ».
• 2000-2001 « Coming back to Seoul », film, color, Art Center exhibition, Seoul, Korea. Contrast of contemplative life in temples and urban strolling around.
• 1998-1999 «Acatama’s desert » film, color, Modern Art Museum exhibition, Santiago, Chile. Landscapes, nature and survival life of Chilean people in adverse environment.
• 1996-1997 « Gardens and temples in Kyoto », film, color, Z and A Gallery exhibition, Japan Landscapes, bouddhism, and zen culture.
MY LIFE EXPERIENCE After working with a film camera, Nikon 24x36 and Mamya RB 6x7, traditionally for many years (about 20) with them, I change progressivly for a digital camera these last years. I learned photography at school, I.N.F.A.C – C.R.E.A.R (Photography, video, and sound) Cinema and Sociology at Vincennes University, then I was assistant with different advertising and fashion photographers in Paris. I learned a lot about light in studio. How to do some special light, how to change it, move it, and try new ideas. But now, I have a digital Canon, and my very good pleasure is to mix, and see according the time, witch camera I will use. Because I was not easy working as photographer, i did many jobs too, ( my best jobs were working for cinema for sure) This is one of the reason I came to make movies. Short movies, documentaries, and a long one, that I am writing on it now. For many years I did photographs with films,….then I just took scissors, did collage and photograph the unique picture before destroy it. Sometimes, I painted or wrote on the picture, making an original and single work. I made chimical experiences on the ektas.
But here starts a new time : after my trip in Canada, Montreal, and USA, San Fransisco, I decided to do a whole work on computer. A thing is sure : I will never stop to experiment with or without computer, and will mix technical digital work and manual art work. In 1986, I came in the group of artists “Le Genie de la Bastille” which is the name of the statue, on Bastille place. I did projects, installations in gardens, exhibitions in France or abroad. (Netherlands, Germany, Japan, Korea, Chile, and USA, etc…). I worked as free lance photographer, and cineast on many different things : documentaries, fashion, advertising, portraits, movies, etc…In the same time I never stopped to experiment for myself different ways to practice photography and movies. I am never bored, because I am always curious to learn new things. I like to mix technical ways too : painting, writing, and computer experimentations, installations, and movies.I always felt different cause I was alone to educate my 2 children. I had to stop documentaries trips when they were babies… and decided to work as a photographer in a studio witch needs more precision and definitively learned me to sculpt light.
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