«faced with the images’ plethora that we daily consume, there are some that need to be tasted, decrypted, need an space and time to enter into and enjoy.»
The city, a manmade creation for his wellbeing, has taken the power over him, and some sort of transformation occurred. From the state of an actor, a space builder, man has become a sort of unconscious victim, single tool, food for «concrete relish». Roles are inverted without any awareness.
The order goes with rentability as well as entertainment. Violence is prohibited or at least channeled; graffiti soon erased, and art confined.
However I like the city as everything is significant. And for those who can read the light, poetry appears from our common everyday life.
These images came from a New York serie that have been shown in 1996 in the American Cultural Center in Brussels.
New-York City, Manhattan, 1994 In the City, skyscrapers are big without grinding us, streets are wide, letting us discover some buildings that appears like a creature dressed in camouflage. This one in the center, was one of the twin towers disappeared September 11th.
23rd Feb 2012 for Socialconcept
Category: Reflexions on a city, the gallery
Keywords: architecture, city, cityscape, symbol
New-York City, Manhattan, 1994 First day, just arrived, looking at the sky, shearching the difference between east and west, I’m uptown looking in the Eye of the City.
19th Feb 2012 for Socialconcept
Category: Reflexions on a city, the gallery
Keywords: city, cityscape, eye
New-York City, Manhattan, 1994 Traffic Jam, stress, hurried taxis, mist everywhere, paranos, always on the move … That’s life in the city. Only a free spirit can pass through this urban jungle, or somebody with a good umbrella …
5th Feb 2012 for Socialconcept
Category: Reflexions on a city, the gallery
Keywords: city, protection, social, weather
New-York City, Manhattan, 1994 There is a story about this image of the Brooklyn Bridge… When I made it, after going home in Rainland, a friend of mine lost her baby. I dind’nt know how to tell her how I was down by such news and I remembered this running woman. So I sended her
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5th Feb 2012 for Socialconcept
Category: Reflexions on a city, the gallery
Keywords: city, holding on, running, social, urban
New-York City, Manhattan, 1994 Didn’t you know Batman exists? This time, let’s forget we are in New York, because now, when you see that photograph, the licence plate informs us Gotham. Strange, not? Ok folks, all we need to know is what the picture shows and there is no trick.
26th Jan 2012 for Socialconcept
Category: Reflexions on a city, the gallery
Keywords: car, city, police, strange
New-York City, Manhattan, 1994 Hanged in such way, as we see it probably often for who takes subways, work and slaughterhouse aren’t that so far from us. Comparison is of course exaggerated and it avoid to appreciate the nature of that photograph, wich is, in fact, is an urban question.
24th Jan 2012 for Socialconcept
Category: Reflexions on a city, the gallery
Keywords: social, subway, urban, work
New-York City, Manhattan, 1994 A woman visage, in the middle of the crowd seems to vanish. The urban subway really transports us to nowhere.
21st Jan 2012 for Socialconcept
Category: Reflexions on a city, the gallery
Keywords: city, face, subway, transport, urban
New-York City, Manhattan, 1994 Alone in the city, this image, like a lost shadow, a strange sihouette of a beheaded man whispers us that sometimes, urbanity sucks humanity. In the city, everybody’s anonymous, everybody have a strange desire to shake everybody’s hands but can’t.
21st Jan 2012 for Socialconcept
Category: Reflexions on a city, the gallery
Keywords: city, shadow, silhouette, urban
New-York City, Manhattan, 1994 Like into a Science fiction movie, the caracter appears or vanishes into smoke, this image looks funny to me. Sometimes I wonder if mankind is not too pretentious. That’s maybe why they reach the sky and touch the ceiling. Ok then, that’s also why they can’t see anything but them ego.
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3rd Dec 2011 for Socialconcept
Category: Reflexions on a city, the gallery
Keywords: cityscape, humor, pedestrian, urban, vanity
New-York City, Manhattan, 1994 Everybody knows those yellow cabs sneaking into the streets of the Big Apple. The smoke from the subway gives that unique atmosphere from this urban landscape. On the background the typographic messages as “Record Explosion” and teh Taxi Fare let us know some details of one’s life, one time in one
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3rd Dec 2011 for Socialconcept
Category: Reflexions on a city, the gallery
Keywords: cab, cityscape, driver, driving, fare, smoke, taxi, urban
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