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Collaboration with Alexandre Sauvageot

24 mars 2005

What could I do with fashion? Well, I try to think about it. I now start a collaboration with Alexandre Sauvageot, french fashion designer, to create a series of uniform… Will give some results soon?

Exhibition at the Fine Art Museum of Clermont-Ferrand

21 mars 2005

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… Read more…

film safe

14 mars 2005

I stayed a few months without really watching the FILM SAFE images… Was a bit bitter after the X-ray accident at the Tel-Aviv Airport… whitch teach me to never trust anymore the one telling you like a robot « film safe »… So, here’s one of the 9 portraits I finally saved. Who knows a little bit about the Fayoum portraits of Egyptia, will understand my feeling…

Noriko Ehara

14 mars 2005

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.

Livguards

12 mars 2005

The « Livguards » of Denmark represent the second chapter of my research about Royal Guards in Europe, after the famous Grenadiers of her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and the amazing Horse guards at White Hall near Buckingham Palace and after the strange spainish Guardia civile. Shooting the guards is always a wonderful moment, because of the strong symbol they have to deal with, and because maybe this anachronic feeling… Read more…

Did it! Came back the 4th

7 mars 2005

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