Photographic zine (12 pages) created in the month December, 2022, entitled 'Place Des Vosges'

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Statement from the artist:

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‘Place Des Vosges’ explores an analog photographic series taken in the early months of autumn, interweaving text and imagery to create a visual narrative based upon the three notions of 'figure', 'form', and 'light' previously explored in a seperate photographic series. The text, written in french in homage to the subject matter, draws upon the nature of photography and its relation to philosophy, meditation, and the external world:

'Nous ne pouvons pas, en tant qu’artistes, nous dissocier des conventions de notre médium. Nous, comme photographes, sommes confinés aux frontières de la bidimensionnalité, de l’indexicalité, de la sempiternité figée dans le temps. Mais pour ces mêmes raisons, il nous permet d’élargir et d’explorer sa nature, de créer une interaction complexe et spontanée de lumière et de sujet, d’intention et de sens. L’image photographique transforme un morceau de papier en une illusion séduisante ou un moment de vérité et de beauté.'

'As artists, we cannot dissociate ourselves from the conventions of our medium. We, as photographers, are confined to the boundaries of two-dimensionality, of indexicality, of timelessness. But for the same reasons, it allows us to expand and explore its nature, to create a complex and spontaneous interaction of light and subject, intention and meaning. The photographic image transforms a piece of paper into a seductive illusion or a moment of truth and beauty.''

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