Fine Art: Conceptual (PROFESSIONAL) - HONORABLE MENTION
Inner Beach

Photo © Michel Kirch
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The beach is a contemporary place. It differs from the port, the shore of a wild coast or estuary, by its ludic, human and sensual sides. The beach has grown along with urbanization, which it seems vital outlet. More the city becomes oppressive, stressed, laborious, swarming and concrete, and more the beach looks like an obliged shadow, a double saving. The one and the other are two sides of a world that becomes focused, uniformed, interconnected while emptying its traditional values.
The beach is the dream which support the urban pressure. By its nudity, by forgetting schedules, with a newfound sense of freedom, with its horizontal lines and its imposing nature, the beach contradicts the city while perpetuating.
In this project I settled in the dreams of my characters. With them I watched the wide, invented games, and especially let thoughts wander. Because rid of clothes, tensions, obligations, schedules, identities, we allow free rein to the images, desires and to the unexpected surprise ...
The beach is therefore a pretext, a way of approaching the self shores.
For this, the real has here just the importance of going beyond.
• Shows in galleries in Europe, USA and Asia. (69 shows in 15 countries)
• Is invited to represent France in the Shapes of Time exhibition at the Alexandria Biennale in 2008.
• The Province of Milan chooses works from his series Climats to accompany
a lecture by Edgar Morin and establish a link between Morin’s thinking and the world of art.
• Is chosen two years running (2009, 2010) by Esther Woerdehoff gallery for Paris Photo,
and for MIART and MIA, Milan (2010, 2011).
• Is selected three years running by Mac Paris (2009–2011).
• In 2010 "TransPhotographies" is spotlighted by the City of Marseille.
• Invited by John McDermott Gallery to the Angkor Foto Festival, 2010.
• Exhibition at Espace Cardin in Paris in 2011 sponsored by the European Space Agency.
• In 2012 he is named Intercultural Ambassador by the UNESCO
• Invited by French Embassy in India to exhibit in New Delhi, 2013.
• Invited by UNESCO to exhibit during the Global Conference 2013.
• Retrospective on various sites in the city of Metz, including the Musée de la Cour d’Or,
2013 – 2014.
• Black and White magazine: Award Winner, Portfolio Contest, 2013.
• Grand Prix Eurazeo for Photography, 2013.
• Publication of the monograph “ “les éveillés” 2014
•Solo show at the Mairie de Paris for “Bridges and Cultures” 2015
• Winner of the International Competition « Spirit of the Mediterranean », PHOTOMED and LENSCULTURE. 2016
• « MONOCHROME PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR « January 2017 (Monochrome Awards)
• Winner at the 32èmes CHELSEA AWARDS, New York City, 2017
• Laureate at CREATIVE QUARTERLY, 2017
• Winner at the International Contest FESTFOTO BRAZIL, Porto Alegre, 2017
• Museum MESSMER, solo show, Riegel, Germany, 2017
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The beach is a contemporary place. It differs from the port, the shore of a wild coast or estuary, by its ludic, human and sensual sides. The beach has grown along with urbanization, which it seems vital outlet. More the city becomes oppressive, stressed, laborious, swarming and concrete, and more the beach looks like an obliged shadow, a double saving. The one and the other are two sides of a world that becomes focused, uniformed, interconnected while emptying its traditional values.
The beach is the dream which support the urban pressure. By its nudity, by forgetting schedules, with a newfound sense of freedom, with its horizontal lines and its imposing nature, the beach contradicts the city while perpetuating.
In this project I settled in the dreams of my characters. With them I watched the wide, invented games, and especially let thoughts wander. Because rid of clothes, tensions, obligations, schedules, identities, we allow free rein to the images, desires and to the unexpected surprise ...
The beach is therefore a pretext, a way of approaching the self shores.
For this, the real has here just the importance of going beyond.
About author:
• Born in France, 1959.• Shows in galleries in Europe, USA and Asia. (69 shows in 15 countries)
• Is invited to represent France in the Shapes of Time exhibition at the Alexandria Biennale in 2008.
• The Province of Milan chooses works from his series Climats to accompany
a lecture by Edgar Morin and establish a link between Morin’s thinking and the world of art.
• Is chosen two years running (2009, 2010) by Esther Woerdehoff gallery for Paris Photo,
and for MIART and MIA, Milan (2010, 2011).
• Is selected three years running by Mac Paris (2009–2011).
• In 2010 "TransPhotographies" is spotlighted by the City of Marseille.
• Invited by John McDermott Gallery to the Angkor Foto Festival, 2010.
• Exhibition at Espace Cardin in Paris in 2011 sponsored by the European Space Agency.
• In 2012 he is named Intercultural Ambassador by the UNESCO
• Invited by French Embassy in India to exhibit in New Delhi, 2013.
• Invited by UNESCO to exhibit during the Global Conference 2013.
• Retrospective on various sites in the city of Metz, including the Musée de la Cour d’Or,
2013 – 2014.
• Black and White magazine: Award Winner, Portfolio Contest, 2013.
• Grand Prix Eurazeo for Photography, 2013.
• Publication of the monograph “ “les éveillés” 2014
•Solo show at the Mairie de Paris for “Bridges and Cultures” 2015
• Winner of the International Competition « Spirit of the Mediterranean », PHOTOMED and LENSCULTURE. 2016
• « MONOCHROME PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR « January 2017 (Monochrome Awards)
• Winner at the 32èmes CHELSEA AWARDS, New York City, 2017
• Laureate at CREATIVE QUARTERLY, 2017
• Winner at the International Contest FESTFOTO BRAZIL, Porto Alegre, 2017
• Museum MESSMER, solo show, Riegel, Germany, 2017
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