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2011.11.28: |
Wilder Mann Show |
| First show of Wilder Mann at Fotohof in Salzburg. I'm also showing Winner face (2002) and Hereros (2007)... Krampus should invade the show! |
2011.05.14: |
Wilder Mann book soon |
| I've finished all my trips around the Wilder Mann project. We expect the book ready in March 2012. And the first exhibitions will take place in Salzburg in November 2012. |
2011.01.06: |
New series online |
| The "Sikh regiment of India", and the "Rudas" series are now online. |
2010.12.23: |
Nankin Performance |
| See the Nankin Performance online, on the W mag website. Selection curated by Hervé Mikaeloff. |
| W mag |
2010.11.08: |
New series online |
| You'll find the Wedding band (India) series and the Jockeys (France) series... More online soon (Wilder Mann, Sikh regiment of India, Rudas). |
2010.08.22: |
Cover of IL mag, Italy |
| In 2009, Intelligence in Lifestyle magazine was selected for one of the top ten covers of the year with my Hereros picture... Let's hope for the best with the numero 22, again a great collaboration with Raffaele Vertaldi... |
2010.06.29: |
FANTASIAS in Numero mag |
| Don't forget to catch the first printing of an extract of the fantasias series... Soon, I'll also receive the first copies of the ITZA' book, made in Mexico. More soon. |
2010.06.07: |
magazines |
| Soccer players in the New-York times magazine, Brasilians Fantasia in Numero Magazine, France. |
2010.02.03: |
Lectures |
| Come to my presentation of the EMPIRE book at the Jeu de Paume in Paris, the 18th of february. And don't hesitate to go to my lecture at FOTODOK, in Utrecht, the 19th... |
| Fotodok |
2010.01.20: |
Short school Haka |
| The Short school Haka series is now online. |
2010.01.05: |
series online |
| "Tivoli-garden" series and "Squeak" series are now online. |
2009.11.16: |
EMPIRE/ VIS VOLUNTATIS |
| The Empire book will be also published in Italian by PELITI. The book will be available in January... same for the Kehrer and Thames&Hudson. It will be pretty easy to get some copies online and the distribution will be optimal too. |
2009.09.25: |
EMPIRE BOOK |
| Kehrer published the English Version, Thames&Hudson published the French one. You'll find the Empire book soon online and in bookshops. |
2009.06.29: |
Short school Haka in Wien |
| Back from New Zealand. The show of this Short school Haka series will be at the Kunsthalle of Wien until October 2009. |
2009.04.30: |
POC workshop |
| The 7th POC workshop will take place in Salzburg, Austria. At the same time, you can visit my show at the Momentum gallery in Wien. And, yes, I ll put some new pictures online soon. |
2009.02.25: |
Vis Voluntatis in Brazil |
| I finished my project last night, with the final parade of the carnival of Pocos de Caldas, MR, Brazil. I was on my own truck wih the fantasia I designed with the help of the samba school Saci po. The third and final chapter of the vis voluntatis project will take place in China, as an extension of my Bi Yan project... My costume should be ready in two weeks... |
2008.12.16: |
Facebook me? |
| If you want to see a large body of images of the Vis voluntatis performance, get on facebook and look for my name. Until I make a website dedicated to this, have a look! |
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2008.10.28: |
Samba school in Brazil |
| I m now in Pocos de Caldas, guest of the Saci-po Samba school. Going on my FANTASIAS project. I will work in two steps, as I did with the Empire series and the Opera series. First I document a series of portraits, and then, I ll design my own fantasia to take part of the next carnival, with my own colors, my own allegory,,, |
2008.10.23: |
Too busy |
| A show in Hyères (Les fleurs du Paradis) to see at the Villa Noailles, Hyères. Check! I can also do some landscape if you push me! A portfolio show in Marseille at the Atelier De visu with a workshop in November. |
| Villa Noailles |
2008.08.19: |
Talking about my work |
| In French only... Interview with Sylvain Bourmeau, on the web magazine MEDIAPARTabout Empire, and my work in General (Sander, the Becher, primitive painting). |
| mediapart |
2008.07.24: |
成人式Seijinshiki in Osaka |
| Have a look at the Seijinshiki series on this site and at the MEM gallery of Osaka. The gallery leaded by Katsuya Ishida is showing the Seijinshiki series for the first time in Osaka. |
| Site of MEM Gallery |
2008.07.19: |
Listen to me... |
| You could listen to this audioguide about the Empire series. I'll come back soon on my last three busy weeks including the second Vis voluntatis performance and my trip in Belfast to photograph the Orange Order... |
| Arles Audioguide |
2008.07.08: |
Arles! |
| I'm just back from the Arles Festival. The opening of the festival curated by Christian Lacroix was yesterday. I'm glad to show Empire there. And yesterday, we did again the Vis voluntatis performance. Look at the link... you can see the webTV of the festival. The second reportage is about the performance. |
| Web TV Arles |
2008.06.11: |
Soon in Arles |
| I now finalize the Empire show for the Arles festival. The exhibition will start the 7th of july. For the opening, the Vis voluntatis performance will take place in the middle of the show too. |
2008.04.11: |
Seijinshiki in Den Haag |
| Opening of my show at Galerie Nouvelles Images. I show the Seijinshiki series for the first time and the Hereros portfolio. |
2008.01.28: |
Shanghai Opera |
| I'm just back from Shanghai. I was invited by the new Museum of Contemporary Art to come at the opening of the opening of the "Unseen" Show (about young contemporary photography). My project about the Chinese Opera is going on. Not only based on photography, I progressively open myself to the idea of the performance mixted with a long preparation including the production of costumes, make up, design... I expect to be able to show my entire Opera project in China before the end of the year... |
2007.12.13: |
New series online! |
| Hereros, Seijinshiki, New Opera are now online. The Seijinshiki series will be printed in my next book, as a collaboration with the manga designer 'Little Fish' (Tokyo). The Portfolio of the Hereros Series will be presented in 2008 too. |
2007.11.29: |
Greetings from Beijing |
| I ve just worked for a week zith the school of chinese opera of beijing. This time I worked with two professors for a make-up project. I ll present my first collages around this series in 2008. Images soon online too. |
2007.11.12: |
Paris photo 2007 |
| I'll show my work in three galleries: Galerie Kicken (Berlin) with a Giant portrait of my last series (Himbas), Galerie des filles du calvaire (Paris) with a giant portrait of the Opera series, and MEM gallery (Osaka) with the rikishi portfolio. |
| website of Paris photo |
2007.10.03: |
About Europe |
| Tomorow, the 4th, I'll have a talk at the "centre culturel suisse" about Europe and its community. I'll talk with Willy Beauvallet, sociologist about the representation of the Identity. It will start at 6 pm, 38 rue des Francs-bourgeois, Paris |
Exhibitions: |
2011-06-25 to 2011-09-30 |
| Frac Basse-Normandie, Caen www.frac-bn.org |
2011-05-13 to 2011-06-12 |
| Bunkier Sztuki, Cracaw |
2011-01-21 to 2011-01-23 |
| Indian Art Summit www.indiaartsummit.com/ |
2010-10-10 to 2011-01-16 |
| CRAC Alsace www.cracalsace.com/ |
2010-10-07 to 2010-11-30 |
| Festival Planche contact, Deauville |
2010-10-05 to 2010-11-02 |
| Matthieu Foss Gallery, Mumbai www.matthieufossgallery.com |
2010-06-16 to 2010-08-15 |
| Seoul Museum of Art www.seoulmoa.org |
2010-05-26 to 2010-05-30 |
| Art Amsterdam |
2010-05-21 to 2010-09-21 |
| Musée des terre-neuvas, Fécamp, France |
2010-05-15 to 2010-06-23 |
| Galerie Nouvelles Images, Den Haag, Nederland |
2010-05-12 to 2010-05-16 |
| Madrid photo fair, Ego galeria |
2010-01-29 to 2010-02-28 |
| Fotodok festival, Utrecht www.fotodok.org |
2009-10-21 to 2010-11-21 |
| Maison des Arts, Evreux |
2009-10-01 to 2009-11-25 |
| Caption Gallery, New York |
2009-09-23 to 2009-10-27 |
| Berliner liste (Ego Galeria) |
2009-09-04 to 2009-09-27 |
| Journées photographiques de Bienne 2009.fototage.ch/fr/expos/artistes |
2009-07-03 to 2009-10-20 |
| Kunshalle Wien, Austria |
2009-05-08 to 2009-07-25 |
| Dress code, ISELP, Brussels www.iselp.be |
2009-05-07 to 2009-05-10 |
| Vienna fair, Momentum www.viennafair.at |
2009-05-07 to 2009-05-10 |
| madrid photo fair www.madridfoto.es |
2009-04-29 to 2009-06-13 |
| Galerie Momentum, Wien www.momentum.co.at |
2009-04-18 to 2009-06-27 |
| "Hors jeu", Espace culturel Francois Mitterand, Beauvais |
2008-12-28 to 2009-02-22 |
| Centre photographique de Cherbourg-Octeville |
2008-12-03 to 2008-12-07 |
| In fashion photo fair, Miami |
2008-11-13 to 2008-11-16 |
| Paris photo fair |
2008-10-30 to 2009-01-11 |
| Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul |
2008-10-19 to 2009-01-04 |
| Villa Noailles, Hyères, France www.villanoailles-hyeres.com |
2008-10-09 to 2008-11-28 |
| Atelier De Visu, Marseille www;atelierdevisu.fr |
2008-09-24 to 2008-11-15 |
| Galerie des filles du calvaire, Bruxelles www.fillesducalvaire.com |
2008-07-22 to 2008-08-12 |
| MEM gallery, Osaka www.mem-inc.jp |
2008-07-08 to 2008-09-14 |
| rencontre international d'Arles |
2008-05-29 to 2008-06-25 |
| Parcours St Germain, Paris http://www.parcoursaintgermain.com |
2008-05-15 to 2008-06-29 |
| Festival Transphotographiques, Lille |
2008-05-11 to 2008-06-15 |
| Muée des Beaux-Arts, St Lo, France |
2008-04-18 to 2008-04-21 |
| Art Bruxelles, Galeries des filles du Calvaire |
2008-04-03 to 2008-04-06 |
| Tokyo Artfair, MEM Gallery |
2008-04-03 to 2008-05-21 |
| Galerie Nouvelles Images, Den Haag www.nouvellesimages.nl |
2008-03-09 to 2008-06-29 |
| Kasseler KunstVerein, Kassel |
2008-02-13 to 2008-02-18 |
| ARCO, Madrid. Galerie Kicken |
2008-01-27 to 2008-03-18 |
| Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai www.mocashanghai.org/index.php?_fu |
2007-09-08 to 2007-10-20 |
| Galerie Ronmandos, Amsterdam ronmandos.resourcestudio.nl/exhibi |
2007-08-25 to 2007-10-05 |
| Kunsthalle, Liestal (S) |
2007-07-08 to 2007-05-31 |
| Dorottya Galeria/Ernstmuseum, Budapest www.ernstmuzeum.hu/dorottya/kiall. |
2007-05-11 to 2007-07-14 |
| Galeries Les filles du Calvaire, Bruxelles |
2007-05-08 to 2007-05-12 |
| Art Amsterdam - Galerie Nouvelles Images |
2007-04-25 to 2007-04-28 |
| Art Chicago, Stephen Daiter Gallery |
2007-04-07 to 2007-04-08 |
| Tokyo Art fair, MEM Gallery |
2007-04-05 to 2007-06-17 |
| Centro Internazionale di Fotografia |
2007-04-01 to 2007-04-15 |
| Koninklijk Atheneum Berchem, Antwerpen |
2007-03-25 to 2007-05-05 |
| Galerie des filles du calvaire, Paris www.fillesducalvaire.com |
2007-03-01 to 2007-03-04 |
| POC Workshop at the Photomuseum of Antwerpen www.pocproject.com |
2007-01-20 to 2007-01-20 |
| Symposium at the Kyoto University of Art and Design |
2007-01-14 to 2007-01-14 |
| Lecture at the School of Photographic Expression, Osaka |
2007-01-09 to 2007-01-09 |
| Lecture at the Kyoto University of Art and Design |
2007-01-07 to 2007-03-03 |
| Expo CLINIC, Pole image H.N Rouen |
2006-12-07 to 2006-12-10 |
| Art Basel, Miami beach (Kicken gallery) |
2006-11-15 to 2006-11-19 |
| Paris photo fair (Filles du Calvaire) |
2006-11-11 to 2006-12-13 |
| Galerie Nouvelles Images, Den Haag |
2006-07-03 to 2006-10-10 |
| Museum of Modern Art (MUDAM) Luxembourg www.mudam.lu |
2006-06-17 to 2006-07-23 |
| POC show, Alone Together. Galerie Nouvelles Images, Den Haag |
2006-06-14 to 2006-06-18 |
| ART BASEL, Kicken Gallery |
2006-06-02 to 2006-07-27 |
| Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago www.stephendaitergallery.com |
2006-05-18 to 2006-06-26 |
| The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Nova Sin www.tina-b.com/areas/sect3.html |
2006-04-30 to 2006-06-25 |
| Kunsthalle, Erfurt, Germany www.kunsthalle-erfurt.de |
2006-04-21 to 2006-04-24 |
| Art Brussel, Kicken Gallery |
2006-02-08 to 2006-02-12 |
| Aipad, NY, Kicken Gallery |
2005-12-01 to 2005-12-04 |
| Miami Art fair, Kicken Gallery |
2005-11-16 to 2005-11-20 |
| Paris photo fair, Galerie Les filles du Calvaire |
2005-10-08 to 2005-12-14 |
| La halle, Pont-en-Royan |
2005-09-23 to 2005-11-12 |
| Kicken gallery, Berlin |
2005-09-20 to 2005-10-19 |
| Photo festival of Breda, Holland www.bredaphoto.nl/ |
2005-06-15 to 2005-06-20 |
| ART BASEL, Kicken gallery |
2005-05-26 to 2005-06-26 |
| Museo nacional de artes visuales, Montevideo |
2005-04-28 to 2005-05-18 |
| Moving Gallery, Spazi Multipli Gallery, Roma www.fotografiafestival.com |
2005-04-17 to 2005-05-17 |
| Fine Art Museum, Shanghai |
2005-03-15 to 2005-05-15 |
| Museo de arte moderno de Buenos Aires |
2005-03-11 to 2005-03-14 |
| Armory show, New York, Kicken Gallery |
2005-03-10 to 2005-04-10 |
| Musee des beaux-arts de Clermont-Ferrand |
2005-03-05 to 2005-04-02 |
| Johnnie Walker"s Art, Tokyo |
2005-01-29 to 2005-02-27 |
| Yokohama Museum of Art parallaxscope.net/RIKISHI/ |
2005-01-22 to 2005-02-23 |
| Galerie Nouvelles Images, Den Haag |
2004-12-02 to 2004-12-05 |
| Art Basel, MIami |
2004-11-25 to 2004-12-26 |
| Centro Cultural Mattucana 100, Santiago de Chili |
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2011-05-13 | |||
| It will certainly be the time to update some news on my site. I'm just late... Was travelling a lot these last 6 months and did not find the energy to do it, neither to organize it. This is one of the pictures from the fashion series I did in December for POP magazine, London. This time, I asked to work with 14 models, and manage for each of them a certain space. This series had to do with Work. This model, Jenny Sinkaberg, is certainly the one I connect to my personal work. I photographed her already for ANOTHER magazine last year. She takes me back to my Winner face series and has this capacity to twist herself for my projects. Fashion became one of the my playful square. After a few years, I found my way... I take it a aculpural project mixed with a portrait research and the wish to reach a perfect attitude. The choice of the environement is fundamental, far from the studio vibe. To me, shooting fashion is like doing a funny puzzle, or playing lego. More images on this link | ||||
| models.com/work/pop-magazine-this-is-pop-2/44588 | ||||
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2010-10-05 | |||
| View of a part of the show at Matthieu Foss Gallery, Mumbai. | ||||
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2010-08-22 | |||
| New Cover of IL magazine, with the Penitente series, 2004... made in Sevilla during the Semana Santa. The series was also shown this year in Utrecht for the Fotodok festival. | ||||
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2010-06-07 | |||
| Life is busy, as usual... with several new series, mainly commissioned which take me on different territories that I already explored like this project for the New-York times magazine, coming out this week, showing a set of portraits of the next generation of American soccer player. I photographed in Dallas and Salt Lake city, in USA, Oslo and (near) Amsterdam, in Europe. A very good experience to get further with portraits in a very tight schedule. I discovered my attitude with portrait more "elegant" than I would have done it a few years ago. It's strange to admit that, but I sometime get a few instincts from fashion maybe... like if there would be a "style" involved. Usually, I thinkI would have been more radical and still, it's just the same work, I'm sure. I'm just not 25 years old anymore. In my first book (Portraits photographiques et uniformes", talking about the Notre dame series, Philippe Arbaizar wrote that somehow, the empathy in my work was probably coming from my age. I was 25 and my models were around 18-20... I was often the age of the persons I photographed. Now, there's a difference, and I can feel it. The relation is different and also give me the capacity to photograph another generation... older than me. | ||||
| www.nytimes.com/pages/magazine/index.html | ||||
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2010-05-21 | |||
| I just start to show some of the images of the Wilder-men series... At the moment, I'm showing my images from Italy, Hungary and Austria. | ||||
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2010-02-09 | |||
| I finally saw my show, for the first time today... Short school Haka is presented on the "project wall" of the Kunsthalle of Wien since June 2009 until the end of february. | ||||
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2009-07-10 | |||
| From both sides, there's some influences. I may use fashion into my photographic work as fashion may use my images as a source of inspiration. With Felipe Oliveira Baptisa, we found many of these crossroads, from my Notre Dame series, my 2 Nelson images or recently, the Majorettes series. The project of a collaboration is now opened. | ||||
| www.levif.be/weekend/fr/mode/news/articles/a14997-article.jsp#articleContainer | ||||
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2009-07-07 | |||
| The short school Haka series, at the Kunsthalle, Wien, Austria. | ||||
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2008-12-11 | |||
| Dennis Hopper, having a exhibition in Paris at the moment including his paintings, films, photographs... HE'S GOOD. This picture was printed in "The Observer"(UK) last month. | ||||
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2008-12-11 | |||
| Just one of the fantasias of my last series in Brazil... | ||||
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2008-09-22 | |||
| I met the Finnish writer during my 4th trip to Finland when I was working with the finnish navy on the Merisotakoulu series (see in the series). Rosa Liksom wrote the text of my STEPS book in 2002 too. Staying in her place in Helsinki, in the middle of her russian toys collection gave us the idea of a new collaboration around these toys. We talked about a story and made the choice of the toys which could be our characters. And then, I went with two assistants on the frozen ice of the sea to photograph the whole story, with my flashlight and so on. It was -35 degrees celcius... and I remember we had to bring 30 kg of ice cubes in a big bag on the sea... Thinking about it, I'm still freezing. The publisher Tammi decided to finish this book with us... A great conclusion! | ||||
| www.tammi.fi/kirjat/ISBN/9789513141363/alue/906,907,912,956/navi/Uutuudet/ | ||||
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2008-08-20 | |||
| 3 view of my show at the MEM gallery in Osaka. The Seijinshiki portfolio (9 images) is displayed framed on the walls. | ||||
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2008-05-30 | |||
| Image of the first "Vis voluntatis" happening last night. It's been a great experience. I'll add more images of the happening soon, and a video too. | ||||
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2008-05-26 | |||
| A me la guardia. This next thursday, I'll do my first performance for the "Parcours St Germain" festival in Paris. You can get some infos on the website of the festival. The guards are ready... More infos later. | ||||
| www.parcoursaintgermain.com | ||||
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2008-02-22 | |||
| ARCO, the Madrid Artfair, Kicken Gallery. | ||||
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2008-02-01 | |||
| 12 portraits from 12 series... From Water polo (2000) to the Black Watch (2006). | ||||
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2007-10-03 | |||
| This is the portrait of Michel and Sebastien Bras (Laguiole). It was commissioned by Next (the saturday extra of the Liberation Newspaper in France). I've done the portraits of 11 famous cooks, the best cooks of the country, la creme de la creme. I loved some of these meetings. I've been always fascinated by this french ideal around Cooking. Actually, I had a doubt about the idea of beeing a painter when I was 22. Reading Gilles Deleuze, the french philosopher, and his theory about Desir, I started to feel that learning to be a painter could not come only from painting, its history and technic. It could and it had to come from a much larger field of experimentation. Look at Rembrandt! Look at Gauguin! Is painting only based on painting?! Cooking became one of these fundamental inspirations for me. Thinking that a good artist should be able to make a good Mayonnaise, for sure! It's all about that actually. The best Cooks are artists (Look at Michel Bras cutting the meat, it's very close to Fontana cutting a canvas, seriously!), and it definitively makes sense when one imagine the diversity of their influences and the enormous field of experiences around this. | ||||
| next.liberation.fr/html/gouts/goutschefs.html | ||||
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2007-09-11 | |||
| A prototype for my film project | ||||
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2007-09-10 | |||
| This is the first Seijinshiki test. Too big. | ||||
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2007-07-02 | |||
| This the portrait of Maurizio Galante, designer for the "NEXT" magazine (Liberation). Maurizio in a impressive fashion creator also an inspired fourniture and object designer. I'm a fan of the furnitures he created, especially Aura chair. This dimenson of objects become quit important in my work. A collaboration is going on with the CRAFT in Limoges (France) for the design of a series of cup. I also wish to produce a particular object taking part of the japanese series "Seijinshiki". | ||||
| /www.maurizio-galante.com | ||||
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2007-05-15 | |||
| This is a view of a part of my solo exhibition at the Galerie Les filles du Calvaire, Paris. | ||||
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2007-04-17 | |||
| I've just finished a series of portraits printed in seven times in the newspaper "Le Monde". The idea was to work on a selection of portraits of politic supporters in 7 different political partis before the election. This last picture was made at the meeting of the french national party last sunday. You can see all the portraits selected during the 7 shootings online | ||||
| www.lemonde.fr/web/articleinteractif/0,41-0@2-823448,49-897729@45-3397,0.html | ||||
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2007-03-22 | |||
| A show going on in Antwerpen, curated by Bert Danckaert: SPEELTIJD (Playtime) is a collective exhibition organized in a high school, in the context of the classrooms, the corridors, the stages... Dirk Braeckman's photograph is above the photocopy machine, surrounded of paper stock... Rineke Dijkstra's portrait on a white board, my Water-polo and butchers are flat on tables. Some paintings of Karin Hanssen really work like an installation in the context. Out the work of each artist, the main research in my point of view is the amazing work by Bert Danckaert, his reflection about the environment in a very poetic way. The installations of our creations by Bert become his own artistic research and reach the best score: a A or a 20/20. | ||||
| http://www.kab-blijft.org/speeltijd/ | ||||
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2007-03-06 | |||
| I'm just back from Antwerpen... The 6th POC workshop (Piece of Cake) took place at the Photography Museum of the flemmish Capital. 15 members were there. My photographic work is also about that and extremly related to this network. We've created POC five years ago to really work together and to share our experiences... And it works. These words from Birgitta Lund (one of the latest POC member from Denmark) sound like a good conclusion of this workshop: "I'm a new member in POC but I felt very comfortable in the group and enjoyed the workshop a lot. I have the feeling of knowing everybody for a long time and not actualy just joining the group". The POC experience has been going on well, with its network, its workshops, its publishing house, its residences... We'll keep going | ||||
| www.pocproject.com | ||||
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2007-01-18 | |||
| Portrait of Carla Bruni for the french magazine "Les Inrockuptibles. | ||||
| www.lesinrocks.com | ||||
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2006-12-21 | read 1 comments | ||
| 2007 coming soon... Yeap, and so much to do. I expect it as an experimental year (I bet it's fun to read this, especially when it's written by a photographer who seems to always shoot the same picture). Cinema, new series based on different technics, different points of view... a new book coming soon too (EMPIRE) and the first base of a generic research about the "portraits photographiques et uniformes" since I've started this in 1999. | ||||
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2006-12-15 | |||
| Was a strong experience... in a supermarket, at the border of France and Luxembourg, in Longwy... I was doing the portraits of the clients, pushing their trolley. I like these moments, they are intense for me. This article is in the french national newspaper "le monde" (see the website) of today. Made me happy. | ||||
| www.lemonde.fr | ||||
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2006-11-27 | read 1 comments | ||
| Current exhibition at Galerie Nouvelles Images, Den Haag, Holland. 14 portfolios are presented flat on tables, introding the images of several series, from Water-polo to Empire. Then, it's possible to real have an overview of the "portraits photographiques et uniformes" project, since 2000. | ||||
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2006-10-02 | read 1 comments | ||
| A marching band, walking in the middle of an empty field... looks like a surrealist western, right? It will be the last image of the videoclip for the Rio Baril song of Florent Marchet (Universal music/barclay) SEE THE VIDEOCLIP ONLINE! on http://florentmarchet.artistes.universalmusic.fr/ | ||||
| florentmarchet.artistes.universalmusic.fr/ | ||||
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2006-08-17 | |||
| A workshop at the Fatamargona school may finish like that... The interesting thing with that danish school of photography (where Morten Nilsson and Anders Petersen are teaching) is that the students seems to test themself a lot, to try to improve something... them as individual standing in the world, its complexity, its absurdity, its obscenity. This image looking more like the conclusion of a happening seems to be a joke and then, watching it longer, is not funny anymore (thinking of History). Rune Mandsbjerg, Johan Rosenmunthe, Flemming Ove Bech, Viktor Storjord, Valdemar Jørgensen are now working on a common project about freedom and photography... something to follow soon on their website... | ||||
| www.fata.dk/ | ||||
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2006-07-06 | read 1 comments | ||
| Opening last week-end at the MUDAM Luxembourg. Have a look at the website made by Claude Closky! | ||||
| www.mudam.lu | ||||
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2006-06-23 | |||
| Ice Hockey, in my home town... | ||||
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2006-06-22 | read 1 comments | ||
| The ALONE TOGETHER show took place last week in Den Haag at the Nouvelles Images Gallery (here there work of Jasper De Beijer, Mathieu Bernard-Reymond, Stephen Hughes (it's small here, see their work on the POC website!)... first official POC show after almost 4 years of existence. | ||||
| www.pocproject.com | ||||
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2006-06-22 | |||
| Eleven of the 22 members of POC were at the opening. The next meeting will probably be in Antwerpen, Belgium, in the end of 2006. | ||||
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2006-06-12 | |||
| And the twinsisters keep growing. This picture was taken in may at the Lycée Pierre Corneille, in Rouen. | ||||
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2006-06-08 | |||
| The LUX series is now on the walls of the new Museum of Modern Art of Luxembourg (MUDAM). The opening will be the 1st of July. | ||||
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2006-06-06 | |||
| Exhibition in Chicago, Stephen Daiter Gallery, curated by Michael Welch and Stephen Daiter. | ||||
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2006-06-06 | |||
| The selected images of this exhibition are on Stephen Daiter Gallery website. | ||||
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2006-05-22 | read 46 comments | ||
| Here are the Corazzieri, the republican guards of the italian president. Was a fantastic meeting, impressive uniform... each guard must be more than 1,90 meter... felt quit small. | ||||
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2006-05-22 | |||
| and in Roma too, the Carabinieri... | ||||
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2006-05-22 | read 1 comments | ||
| San Marino, two months ago... in the parliament of the 21000 citizens republic. On the beld of each gard, a litlle metallic "Gorgon's head", copy of the famous painting of Caravaggio... which became the symbol of my whole research about the "guards" series. | ||||
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2006-05-19 | |||
| This is strange, isn'it? This is the room where the LUX series will be displayed the 1st of July at the Museum of Modern Art of Luxembourg... It's the smallest country where I've worked (with Singapore!) but it's the biggest series selected for an exhibition. I've produced 9 different series there, including "LUX soldats", "LUX nageurs", "LUX Ballets", "LUX jobs"... LUX is a demonstration about how a country is finally always made of a systematic set of communities... if not, it would not really be a country. | ||||
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2006-05-19 | |||
| from the series LUX, two dancers photographed in Luxembourg in 2004 at the Jaga Antony School of Ballet. | ||||
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2006-04-03 | |||
| H.M Kongens Garde, Oslo, two weeks ago. | ||||
| www.mil.no/haren/hmkg/start/article.jhtml?articleID=118699 | ||||
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2006-02-02 | |||
| Escorte Royale de Belgique, Bruxelles. Lucky me! | ||||
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2006-01-27 | |||
| From the commission of the Villa Noailles, Hyères, France about the market gardener of the area. | ||||
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2005-12-21 | |||
| Two weeks ago, at the Miami Art fair, Kicken Gallery. | ||||
| www.kicken-gallery.com | ||||
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2005-12-14 | |||
| The twin sisters are still growing. I met them one month ago in a windy Rouen, near the swimming pool on the Lacroix island. | ||||
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2005-12-11 | |||
| Vive la France! First step of the research with the french "Garde républicaine". I'll photograph the cavalery in January | ||||
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2005-12-05 | read 838 comments | ||
| Just back from Kigali, Rwanda. I was working there for an ONG, for a photographic project whitch will be shown during the olympic games of Turin, Italy in 2006. I worked during a week with a group of children (Umwana) , all orphans, most of them HIV positive. The situation there still makes me trembling all over. The background and the politic situation sounds like a nightmare and doing a photographic series of portraits there can't be exactly based on the same system. There's some "pathos", the situation of the environement, the personal situation of each child makes the photographic project absolutly different, more psychologic, much more fragile and sensible. I did my best but I feel that the main problem for a photographer like me there is the post-colonialism. Let's say that it's complicated to make a series of portrait without thinking of the 19th century and its patronizing anthropological photographic project where the "nigger" was considered like an animal. I made a workshop with 15 teenagers there. They made their own portraits with my heavy equipment, had good fun. At the end of the workshop, they asked me where i was coming from. "Paris", I said. "Do you know what french did in our country?" they answered. Yes, I know. | ||||
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2005-11-10 | read 1 comments | ||
| Les carabiners du Prince de Monaco, last week. | ||||
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2005-07-21 | |||
| Just back from the North... Still a royal time! Shooting of the "Grande Escorte Royale" in Brussel, Belgium... | ||||
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2005-05-02 | |||
| Here's a new project... something I'll purchase for several years: Every year in Orleans, a new "Jeanne d'Arc", symbole and fundamental myth of the french society, is elected by the comitee of the city of Orleans, in the center of France. This young woman is supposed to be a positive example for the other teenagers of her generation: a good way of life, healthy, good behaviour, good customs. This Jeanne d'Arc is a non politic one, belonging to the long tradition of french popular event. Next one next year | ||||
| www.ville-orleans.fr/html/fr/fetesjeanne.html | ||||
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2005-04-26 | |||
| this background is older than my dad... used by the Opera for the shows abroad or all over china... since the 50's. Maybe the first time I work on a so colorful series... | ||||
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2005-04-26 | |||
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2005-04-04 | |||
| Vietnam, Buddhist monk | ||||
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2005-03-23 | |||
| Last week in Stockholm... Royal guards. | ||||
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2005-03-21 | read 1 comments | ||
| The Exhibition at the Fine Art Museum of Clermont-Ferrand was a good opportunity for me to show 3 series combining the idea of the question of the body in the community... In french, we talk about "un corps d'armée", meaning that the group of soldier of the foreign legion constitute a real body... Each body of soldier being a part of this collective body... Two wreslters fighting sometime create that similar effect... becoming a strange animal moving... Each sumo wrestler is also a member of his community (Heya): The transformation of his body, being bigger and bigger is also the result of this collective effect. Being a member of that kind of group needs a total involvement of the person, and the modification of his visual aspect, threw the evolution of the body. | ||||
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2005-03-14 | read 1 comments | ||
| I've never had the opportunity to show to anybody this image made by Noriko Ehara during one of my Rikishi shooting. It was early in the morning, in 2002, during my second trip to Tokyo...After some long negociation, we found an agreement to get the permission to shoot a series in one of these heya... Being inside the sacred cercle was of course the only way for me to get a chance to really obtain an interesting portrait... Me inside - the rikishi somehow outside - Then, I've had the feeling I was a bit less the outsider, also if it was an illusion. | ||||
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2005-03-07 | read 1 comments | ||
| Did it! Came back the 4th... Here's one of the first images scanned of this project... I've some portraits in 3 Buddhist Pagodas and 2 Monks schools in Hue, center of Vietnam... and came back with an enormous research whitch will need a long time to be organized... All the symbols, all the elements of the pictures really change the point of view and there's a long way before getting the real balance of the series. I'll discover more soon... This is the first one. CF loves Caravagio | ||||
