Zones (2007-2010)

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Zones (2007-2010)

Produced as part of the collective project ”France¹⁴,” “Zones” is the first of the six parts that constitute my work ”En France” (2007–2014). I originally decided to not focus on a theme, but to simply wander, to get lost in France. From one trip to the next, I found I kept returning to the same sites: residential and commercial areas on the outskirts of towns. Working there was a clear reaction to what I was seeing everywhere: urban sprawl, the sprawl of an individualistic, consumerist, and surveillance-obsessed society. With standardized living spaces, where everything looks the same, nothing is identifiable, except for the signs, signals, and obstacles placed everywhere until uneasiness. So I chose to depict them in a way avoiding any reference points and bringing out from each image an underlying strangeness.

Exhibition of an extract in “France¹⁴,” Abbaye de Montmajour (Rencontres d’Arles), 2010, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (Photo Month), 2010, Commanderie Saint-Jean, Corbeil-Essonnes (L’Oeil Urbain), 2011.

Publication of an extract in France¹⁴, by TransPhotographicPress, 2010.

18 photographs.