Author: Sébastien Hentz

So, how did it all started again? Hum, yes, memory. My memory has started to fail me for an already long time now. And this really distressed me... so you may say anguish is the reason for going to photography, the idea was to replace my lacking memories by images, which I started to wish nicer than the few images I kept in mind. Nicer, or different, or to be shared, or weirder, or that I could fabricate. Oh yes, anguish leads to the dark side has said the master of all of us ; oh my, does this mean I am keen on changing what's in front of my eyes into the way I would like it to be? Ok, here comes anguish again...

New exhibition: Lost Places 2, by Arnaud Thurel (Th)

2013/02/062013/07/30 Categories: BOP Photography Collective - NewsTags: Arnaud Thurel · new exhibition · thLeave a comment

Oops, he did it again… He had warned us there would be a second stage: Arnaud Thurel just released his “Lost Places, Act II” new exhibition. It still shows striking images of industrial wasteland, still shot with a pinhole camera in B&W. But this time, there are not only traces of life, but he shows life itself there, life that brings new purpose to the place. Beyond the technical constraints (like loooooong exposure times), Arnaud provides us with a good grasp of the feeling one has when entering the place. An alien-looking figure in a post apocalyptic environment, this is…

Little self

2009/11/012013/07/27 Categories: Exhibitions · Humanistic ViewsTags: Baby · France · humanistic photography · intimate · personal

A great many expectations ; And nine months are not too many to get prepared. Not because of DIY sites’ lack of pedagogy about bedroom wall painting or because you have trouble following the assembly instructions of the IKEA bed… but you’d wish many questions answered, you seek to figure out the whole idea of that behindthebump-alienbaby-happynotatallanxiousparentstobe THING. So the mind wanders whenever it can and wants, no matter what you had decided for it, like between the reading of a front and back covers, in an instant.

The people of Karosta

2007/01/072013/07/27 Categories: Exhibitions · Humanistic ViewsTags: art · Europe · humanistic photography · latvia · traveling

As Hern42 wrote, in Karosta, there are wrecked buildings, relics of a past when it was a russian navy base ; in the middle of it, a shining jewel : their golden orthodox cathedral. An art center, too, where people try to introduce modern culture in a place that has become a ghetto. And there is this crazy group of european artist/architects collectively known as Exyzt (www.exyzt.org), who could not of course prevent themselves from being attracted to this weird environment and from creating from scratch an art festival there, for the people of Karosta. Oh yes, because in Karosta,…