Author: Barthélémy Longueville

Taking pictures, that's traveling around the world, carrying a notebook and a bunch of film rolls. That's the feeling of the old metal skin of my cameras. That's waiting for a picture to be revealed in the darkroom, remembering the sound of the shutter and bringing back all the universe when the picture was taken, faces, clouds, pieces of sky, unknown objects... I shot my first 10 rolls of film in China, last century. Probably there is the root of my path with photography. I cannot say this is the origin of all my inspiration but for sure these first films had a huge foot print. Since that time, I like walking anywhere with a camera, opening my eyes, driven by the environment. Sometimes it is even simply for the pleasure to discover, taking picture is an attempt to preserve a specific stream of feelings. That special instant when the shutter is released and the image start its life in my memory is often more important than the result itself. The photographs I like are carrying an atmosphere, a whole small world. I am proud to be part of BOP. Not only because our fellow members share a passion for analog cameras but because we like to spend the necessary time for things to be done and seen. We are not really working in the instant, we simply like to take our time and slowly prepare our exhibitions, from the first idea, the shooting, the processing, to the selection and exchanges with the other members.

New travelogue : The Stenopex Week-end (a pinhole photography experience in Italy by Th (Arnaud Thurel))

2012/04/012013/08/03 Categories: BOP Photography Collective - NewsLeave a comment

Th (Arnaud Thurel) has just published We have a new travelogue! More than a story, this is a making-off of one of the chapter of his series “Lost places” accomplished during a week-end with his team in Italy. Arnaud Thurel (Th) vient de publier un nouveau récit de voyage. Plus qu’un travelogue, c’est le making-off d’un des chapitres de sa série “Lost places” réalise en Italie durant un week-end avec son équipe. The travelogue is in French.

Life and faces of eastern India – a double exhibition by Hern and YuB

2011/03/082013/08/03 Categories: BOP Photography Collective - NewsLeave a comment

Our fellow members, Chris (YuB) and Arnaud (hern42) have reached by chance the Indian territories near the Bangladesh border. It was not their initial plan, but from this unexpected trip, they bring a very powerful double exhibition. By following these two links [ YuB’s gallery and hern42’s gallery ] you will discover two visions of the same reality, you will enter the life of some little known areas of India. While Chris is drawing close portraits in delicate gray tones, Arnaud is bringing us in the heart of street life, playing with contrasts, focus, shadows and smokes. These two exhibitions…

Discount Fuel

2011/02/082016/02/08 Categories: Exhibitions · Land PortraitsTags: 6x6 · colour · kodak ektachrome 100 · Louisiana · Texas · USA · yashica mat 124G

Discount Fuel project. Two thousands miles of ride in the south, one camera and the idea to gather visual prints of what can actually be seen in the USA. Four days to wipe out thirty years of exposure to American culture, four days to rework, reshape my vision of USA.