| A stranger I met on the street three months ago and invited me to go into his apartment. I returned and showed the first pictures I took of him. I brought my flash because I knew that I was still shooting him. But I did not know it was proposed to pose nude for me His story: I do not know the whole story of this man, but I can tell you what I know. He is 53 and lives in a small apartment on my street. In 2006 his mother died, with which he had lived with in this apartment. After her death he was alone. I think he lived his whole life with his mother, so her death for him was a tragic event. Since he lives alone and does not work, it uses the money he inherited to live. he is currently looking for a smaller apartment, because he is now only one. ********************************************* My approach: I attempt to go further by meeting individuals in their privacy. By choosing foreigners on the street or by going door to door, I choose my models for their beauty. Not physical beauty, but emotional. By arranging and directing my models, I try to create portraits that are true to nature. To capture a look that would not exist without my intervention. Regarding the photo itself, I use digital processes to transform the color and light. In my photos, the background light increases the climactic sense of the model itself. I prefer to work with natural light and then push it towards the supernatural, so that the color of my photos is only a coating of the subject. My photographs show an aesthetic side without compromising the essence of the subject and its emotional value. Beautifying the the grotesque in the same way as the beauty industry; beautifying the ugly is very important to me. Since the contemporary world invaded with advertising, appearance is important to capture the eye of the viewer. I use the same tools as the industry: strong images, excessive, provocation, picture perfect. Not in a mercantile, but to exceed the industry itself with a human referred sincere paramount. All this attention to the final rendering of the image is a way to exercise my control, to enter the deep intimacy of the subject and its environment. In order to reveal stories and emotions that are at first invisible without the intervention of the artist. Then I can create unique narrative sequences. All this for a purpose, to gain further knowledge of the privacy of others and go beyond the concept that the subjects have their own privacy. Ma démarche J’essaie d’aller plus loin dans la rencontre des individus, dans leur intimité. En choisissant des étrangers dans la rue ou en faisant du porte-à-porte, je choisis mes modèles pour leur beauté, non pas esthétique, mais émotive. En dirigeant mes modèles et en les modelant à ma guise, je tente de créer des portraits plus vrais que nature, de capter un regard qui n’existerait pas sans mon intervention. Concernant la photo elle-même, j’utilise des processus numériques pour transformer les couleurs et la lumière. Dans mes photos, l’arrière-plan pointe de toutes ses lumières vers le point culminant, le modèle lui-même. Je travaille de préférence avec un éclairage naturel pour ensuite le dénaturer et le pousser vers le surnaturel. De sorte que la coloration de mes photos n’est plus seulement un enrobage du sujet, mais plutôt son attribut. Mes photographies démontrent une recherche esthétique, sans toutefois compromettre l’essentiel, l’essence du sujet et sa valeur émotionnelle. Embellir le brut dans le même processus que la pub, embellir le laid et le rendre majestueux est important pour moi. Puisque dans le monde contemporain envahi par la pub, l’esthétisme est important pour capter l’œil du spectateur. J’utilise les mêmes outils que la pub: image forte, caractère excessif, provocation, image parfaite. Non pas dans un but mercantile, mais pour depasser la pub elle-même avec une visée humaine sincère, primordiale. Toute cette attention portée au rendu final de l’image est une manière d’exercer mon contrôle afin de pénétrer dans l’intimité profonde du sujet et de son environnement. Ceci afin de lui faire révéler des histoires et des émotions qui à prime abord sont invisibles sans l’intervention de l’artiste. De là peut alors naître des séquences narratives uniques. Tout cela dans un but, celui d’aller plus loin dans la connaissance de ce qu’est l’intimité des autres et ainsi dé  asser la vision que les sujets ont de leur propre intimité. |
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