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urban sprawl serie 2015
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URBAN SPRAWL
My work mainly focuses on the idea of urban sprawling and the urban expansion of its periphery.
When a banal landscape presents itself, I try to photography it like a romantic painting: zero effects, no amplitude, nothing huge. I am only trying to be stronger than “this big nothing” in controlling the space by framing the subject.
From my point of view, this urban banality has its own aesthetic which obeys to its own rules: ban of living objects, a precise geometrical organization, revealing a specific physical and mental landscape which talks about the lines blurring between cities and suburbs, between suburbs and countryside, a process that results in an independent identity.
This aesthetic of the emptiness in my photographic work attempts to understand our current environment: Can it be one of de-civilization?
He has exhibited his works mainly in France (Paris), Singapore, USA (Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, Portland), China (Hong Kong), and has also participated in several arts fairs and collective exhibitions. He graduated from the Beaux Arts in Paris, with honors (Vladimir Velikovick), and also holds a degree in Visual Arts.
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URBAN SPRAWL
My work mainly focuses on the idea of urban sprawling and the urban expansion of its periphery.
When a banal landscape presents itself, I try to photography it like a romantic painting: zero effects, no amplitude, nothing huge. I am only trying to be stronger than “this big nothing” in controlling the space by framing the subject.
From my point of view, this urban banality has its own aesthetic which obeys to its own rules: ban of living objects, a precise geometrical organization, revealing a specific physical and mental landscape which talks about the lines blurring between cities and suburbs, between suburbs and countryside, a process that results in an independent identity.
This aesthetic of the emptiness in my photographic work attempts to understand our current environment: Can it be one of de-civilization?
About author:
Emmanuel Monzon, French photographer and plastic artist .Living in Seattle.He has exhibited his works mainly in France (Paris), Singapore, USA (Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, Portland), China (Hong Kong), and has also participated in several arts fairs and collective exhibitions. He graduated from the Beaux Arts in Paris, with honors (Vladimir Velikovick), and also holds a degree in Visual Arts.
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