Association Bricolages Ondulatoires et Particulaires
hern42 - Arnaud De Grave
What brought me to photography? That's a good question... I won't say my father bought me my first camera as a kid, because it is not true. He bought me my first *real* camera and I was already not a kid any more (or was I?). I don't know why a lot of photographers started like that... Anyway...
Actually skateboarding started my interest in photography when I couldn't understand why my pictures were not looking like the ones in the magazines! It never occurred to me to think that I was crappy at taking pictures, instead I thought my camera wasn't good enough. Go figure... So I got my father to buy me a big bulky camera full of knobs, buttons, screens and thingies: looking complicated. If there is that much stuff on the camera it must mean that you can have a lot of control on what you do and control ought to be a good thing. I read the manual and got scared, stopped reading and shot some films, and got dead scared.
Now I'm more into old cameras I buy second-hand or find at flea markets. Most of them don't have any fancy knobs or tricky light-meters but then I got a good excuse for bad exposure.
My inspiration is still skateboarding, a lot. But also travelling, music, graphism (that *has* to be a Frenchism). Do I consider myself as a photographer? Mmmmm... I guess it depends if I want to trick California girls in red bikini into getting on my films...
I am a member of the Magnesium Photo Agency.
Personal website: Azimut Brutal
What brought me to photography? That's a good question... I won't say my father bought me my first camera as a kid, because it is not true. He bought me my first *real* camera and I was already not a kid any more (or was I?). I don't know why a lot of photographers started like that... Anyway...
Actually skateboarding started my interest in photography when I couldn't understand why my pictures were not looking like the ones in the magazines! It never occurred to me to think that I was crappy at taking pictures, instead I thought my camera wasn't good enough. Go figure... So I got my father to buy me a big bulky camera full of knobs, buttons, screens and thingies: looking complicated. If there is that much stuff on the camera it must mean that you can have a lot of control on what you do and control ought to be a good thing. I read the manual and got scared, stopped reading and shot some films, and got dead scared.
Now I'm more into old cameras I buy second-hand or find at flea markets. Most of them don't have any fancy knobs or tricky light-meters but then I got a good excuse for bad exposure.
My inspiration is still skateboarding, a lot. But also travelling, music, graphism (that *has* to be a Frenchism). Do I consider myself as a photographer? Mmmmm... I guess it depends if I want to trick California girls in red bikini into getting on my films...
I am a member of the Magnesium Photo Agency.
Personal website: Azimut Brutal
Every street has a story to tell... (24 pictures)
This exhibition will hopefully tell that Asian streets have many stories to tell. The stories they tell might be true, they also might be pure fiction. There might not be any obvious story. I am but a chronicler, a mere scribe. Does one really care? Isn't it as true as we like it to be?
The streets are the roots of all evil, err, sorry, of all street-photography. Many shots were made at night ("It was a dark and stormy night..." of course), but many shots were also made during the day. Some in a rush, some just before running...
This exhibition will hopefully tell that Asian streets have many stories to tell. The stories they tell might be true, they also might be pure fiction. There might not be any obvious story. I am but a chronicler, a mere scribe. Does one really care? Isn't it as true as we like it to be?
The streets are the roots of all evil, err, sorry, of all street-photography. Many shots were made at night ("It was a dark and stormy night..." of course), but many shots were also made during the day. Some in a rush, some just before running...
French farming (12 pictures)
You cannot always go in holidays on the other side of the globe, even if attrative as an idea it is also I beleive quite misleading. Indeed, one fail to see the beam in one's eye but can very well think that it is more beautiful in a country in "-stan".
The french countryside is very nice, full of farms, fields, animals (and crap of course). I had the possibility to take a couple of shots in a traditional farm, and also to go close to the animals, while experiencing the hospitality of these wonderful warm people. How come they...
You cannot always go in holidays on the other side of the globe, even if attrative as an idea it is also I beleive quite misleading. Indeed, one fail to see the beam in one's eye but can very well think that it is more beautiful in a country in "-stan".
The french countryside is very nice, full of farms, fields, animals (and crap of course). I had the possibility to take a couple of shots in a traditional farm, and also to go close to the animals, while experiencing the hospitality of these wonderful warm people. How come they...
LabiChampi in Karosta, Latvia (18 pictures)
Imagine a bunch of artist-architects...
Now imagine an old Russian navy base, turned into some sort of ghetto in Latvia...
Now continue imagining these people taking care of modifying some destroyed buildings into an art centre...
And to top that all, imagine an orthodox cathedral beaming in the evening light.
I have to admit I got pretty excited by the surrounding there!!!
For more informations about the project please visit the EXYZT website if you dare. They are an artistico-architectico collective, or something like that... And they are insane. That's all I'm saying, and I certainly *do* respect that!!!
Imagine a bunch of artist-architects...
Now imagine an old Russian navy base, turned into some sort of ghetto in Latvia...
Now continue imagining these people taking care of modifying some destroyed buildings into an art centre...
And to top that all, imagine an orthodox cathedral beaming in the evening light.
I have to admit I got pretty excited by the surrounding there!!!
For more informations about the project please visit the EXYZT website if you dare. They are an artistico-architectico collective, or something like that... And they are insane. That's all I'm saying, and I certainly *do* respect that!!!
The hunt for the dudes and dudettes... (16 pictures)
A first of May in København... One camera, one film, one day... many beers and one sausage!
The first of May is quite an institution in Copenhagen, this year it was sunny (after a couple of years of rainy firsts of May) and people poured in the streets and slowly (or not) converged toward Faelledparken to participate in whatever activities there were there: beer of course, sausage for sure, some music, lots of political discussions (mixed with lots of beer, I let you imagine...) and stuff.
I went hunting for dudes and dudettes...
A first of May in København... One camera, one film, one day... many beers and one sausage!
The first of May is quite an institution in Copenhagen, this year it was sunny (after a couple of years of rainy firsts of May) and people poured in the streets and slowly (or not) converged toward Faelledparken to participate in whatever activities there were there: beer of course, sausage for sure, some music, lots of political discussions (mixed with lots of beer, I let you imagine...) and stuff.
I went hunting for dudes and dudettes...
Zulu: chasing dancing ghost ... (6 pictures)
In 2009 Yours Truly was asked to craft a book cover for Labyrint, a new Copenhagen-based publishing company translating French crime novels into Danish. I was sent to Marseille to walk the path of Fabio Montale and photograph the guts of Marseille's side in Jean-Claude Izzo’s Total Kheops. Some of the results, which have hung in galleries across Denmark, can still be seen on the Magnesium photo agency website.
For their second book they chose Caryl Férey’s Zulu which action takes place in South Africa, a very timely location what with the world cup happening there and...
In 2009 Yours Truly was asked to craft a book cover for Labyrint, a new Copenhagen-based publishing company translating French crime novels into Danish. I was sent to Marseille to walk the path of Fabio Montale and photograph the guts of Marseille's side in Jean-Claude Izzo’s Total Kheops. Some of the results, which have hung in galleries across Denmark, can still be seen on the Magnesium photo agency website.
For their second book they chose Caryl Férey’s Zulu which action takes place in South Africa, a very timely location what with the world cup happening there and...
List of past exhibitions:
A trip in the jungle with my dear friend Holga
Music is good for your health!!
Romania 2004
A trip in the jungle with my dear friend Holga
Music is good for your health!!
Romania 2004