Author: Arnaud De Grave

Arnaud De Grave (a.k.a. mostly Hern42) came rather late to photography, like everything he does nowadays. Before that he was busy being good at school, or rather he was not enough of a rebel not to be... But the times, they are a-changing, as one says. He became interested in photography because he was not good enough in skateboarding, starting both around 2000 at the age of 25, which is, he knows, rather very late. So that kills the usual myth of having been given an ancient camera by one's father at age five and never looking back again. However he was indeed offered his first "real" camera by his father, albeit at a later time. Then started a long progression of travelling and shooting and collecting older and weirder cameras, buying more and more films and exposing them. Getting more and more addicted to producing images which would fit within whatever fancy he got inside his ever oh-so fastly (ghastly?) changing mood. He created many things in order to have more opportunities to perform photography: the French association BOP, the Copenhagen based group CCCP (which stood for "Color Climax Copenhagen Photographers"), etc. He prefers rather long projects based on travelling and social behaviour in the gonzo way (in reference to Hunter Thompson but without too much of the drug intake, not the Muppet Show...) "When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk." - Tuco / The good, the bad and the ugly (1967)

Chris Huby sur le site de Vice France pour son reportage sur le Sida en Birmanie

2015/08/04 Categories: BOP Photography Collective - NewsLeave a comment

Chris Huby avait exposé son travail sur les nouvelles routes du Sida en Birmanie lors d’une exposition à Paris en Octobre 2013 (cf cette news). Ce sujet important peut maintenant être lu sur le site de Vice (version France) et bénéficie d’une place bien méritée. Pour lire l’article, suivez ce lien vers le site de Vice France : Les Nouvelles routes du Sida en Birmanie, par Chris Huby, VICE — Chris Huby presented his work about AIDS in Myanmar in an exhibition in Paris in 2013 (cf this piece of news) and the work is now displayed on the Vice…

New exhibition – new member || Jon Ellis’ Reflections on Tokyo Subways…

2015/04/212015/05/30 Categories: BOP Photography Collective - NewsLeave a comment

Whenever one thinks about Tokyo’s subway it usually involves these white[-]gloved agents shoving lots of inebriated Japanese salarymen and -women on a Friday night in Chibuya or Shinjuku; or the fight for the hegemony on the seat by the same -men and -women on which to sleep (and potentially throw up). All this is somehow true. I’ve been there. However, this new exhibition by our new BOP member Jon Ellis shows that if one knows how and where and when to look, one can be surprised.

Article by Chris Huby in 6 Mois magazine

2014/04/092014/04/10 Categories: BOP Photography Collective - NewsTags: 6 mois · chris huby · news · publication · SyriaLeave a comment

Chris Huby has been working a lot in Syria and other such nasty places for the past 2 or 3 years. His work has been showcased in numerous places (and some more will be presented in the soon to come second issue of our own magazine Photo Analogies). One can have a look at one explained picture in the prestigious 6 Mois French photo-reportage magazine here (or clic on the screenshot). The article is in French but the picture is not. The whole BOP team is very proud of Chris’ work and commitment to photo-journalism. Most of his work is…