Do you like contemporary photography? Come visit our booth at Fotofever Paris Art Fair from 10 to 12 November 2017.
We will be presenting the ‘Affinity’ series by American photographer Brad Wilson, as well as the ‘Snjór’ series by French photographer Christophe Jacrot. Two completely different approaches that we have decided to label Space / Species: Christophe Jacrot’s Snjór takes us on a journey across the vast icy stretches of Iceland, in the snow and the cold. Whereas Brad Wilson invites a wild landscape of characters into his studio, and succeeds in capturing all sorts of animal portraits.
We are looking forward to meeting you during these three days so we can share with you these two very different photographic styles. Come and see us!
Affinity by Brad Wilson: eye to eye with wild fauna.
With the ‘Affinity’ series, begun in 2010, Brad Wilson snubs the laws of wildlife photography and has invented a new way to portray animals.
His large format prints procure a weird sentiment of proximity with the wild animals which he photographs in his studio: set against an intensely black background, they appear to be questioning us, wondering why we so often challenge the animal kingdom, as if to remind us that we too are a part of this incredibly rich and interconnected biodiversity.
Snjór, by Christophe Jacrot : a solitary journey across a snowbound Iceland.
Having photographed some of the northern hemisphere’s megacities (New York, Hong Kong, Paris…) transfigured by harsh weather, Christophe Jacrot has decided to turn his attention to wide open spaces. Between end 2014 and mid 2016, he visited Iceland 6 times, driven by the following question: with global warming is it still possible in Europe to photograph “a winter… that looks like a winter” ?
A far cry from the imposing sky-scrapers of his previous series, here modest isolated abodes appear to be crushed between a freezing ground and a heavy and menacing sky. The sea meets the mountains to create an almost abstract landscape of an incomparable beauty.
The ‘Snjór’ series has also been published in a fabulous book (editions h’Artpon) which Christophe Jacrot himself will sign at the Fotofever art fair on Friday 10 November at 5 pm.
