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Alexis Gonnet france
title
Ink In Water
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entry description
This theme I explored is meant to challenge the traditional representation of photography. This series of photographs is a melting pot of abstract, surreal, conceptual and misconceptions aimed to disturb the audience by masking out the main subject though the use of ink based textures, and blurring the reality and understanding of the basics of photography. I called this theme “Ink In Water”.about the photographer
Born in Grenoble in 1996, Alexis Gonnet is a young photographer who probably gets his artistic precocity due to a childhood of globe-trotter and adolescence in an english school. He is initiated at Millfield School to the plastics arts and media techniques. Also contestant in several photography contests on the internet, he decides to start digital imagery and the creation of conceptual photography. In his photos he evokes disturbingly poetical mythological stories and childhood fairytales. "As I usually say, a hyper realist painter tries his best to achieve a result which looks like a real photographic picture. A pictorialist photographer's wished objective is visually equivalent to a painting". In other words, I intended to seamlessly blend photographic elements with painting techniques, raising intriguing questions about each medium and the way they overlap. Also involving intertextual references from my taste in cinema and Art in general.back to gallery