MUSÉE 29 – EVOLUTION
Evolution explores the concepts of progress, transformation, growth, and advancement in an age when images are taking a dramatic shift in the role they play in our lives.
All in Parallel Lines
“Parallel Lines was born for this reason, with the aim of creating a community of professionals parallel to photographers working to be everything but parallel and meet photographic works as often as possible.“
What I find truly exciting is photography that succeeds either at reinventing our past or, on the contrary, at proposing alternatives for our future
“I look at the photographs and I feel like I am not the author at times, no matter how good it feels to create them.”
“I have always experienced images in a death-of-the-author mode: no matter who is behind an image, it is the image that must overwhelm me.”
Strolling through the streets of Arles for the very first time in the short life of a young photographer, soft caresses of warmth both on one’s skin and eyes, the optimistic atmosphere of many people hoping for new discoveries is impossible not to notice.
If photography has the role of catalysing attention, the photographer does not have to tell the whole story there but rather draw people in.
The greatest photographers always apply a forward-looking design to their work. Their vision translates and codifies the present, but only by constantly turning to the future.
There is something extremely radical about claiming to be a photographer. I realized this as soon as I declared to be one for the first time some years ago.
What is particularly interesting in our work is the possibility to delve into and admire every single nuance of the many projects coming from artists all over the world: while an analytical reading, a "textual" interpretation of the image only reveals the informative part of the image
On a more philosophical level, I enjoy photography that gives voice to social communities which could not be heard before. There is a shift currently in terms of who is telling stories and which ones.
I love all kind of photography: still life, landscape, portraits. I like when it’s a unique captured moment, where you understand the photographer was at the right place at the right moment.
As soon as Steve Jobs revolutionized our life by putting Apple devices in our hands every day, photography has become the main language through which we communicate, with text becoming a secondary language.
I am particularly attracted by documentation, being able to capture glimpses of magic (I’m obsessed by prisms and rainbows, gradients of light & colors) in chaos or everyday-maybebanal-moments.
My exhibitions are very research oriented, focusing on particular topics: the last one in Beijing was centered around fashion production in China and Southeast Asia with its diasporas, ranging from designers to artists who had made work about fashion, to photographers.
The artist in comparison to the art: featuring the words of the artist behind the lens in this week’s photographic piece.
“Such new school of photography enables young artists to create with no conditioning or burden from the past to restrict their creativity.” - T. Bigaignon
