2nd place
silver star award
emmanuel monzon
united states
title
URBAN SPRAWL -EMPTINESS
This aesthetic of the emptiness in my photographic work attempts to understand our current environment.
COLLECTION: ESSEL COLLECTION- Karlheinz Essl, founder of the ESSL Museum.
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entry description
Emptiness: The work of Emmanuel Monzon focuses primarily on the idea of urban sprawling and the urban expansion of its periphery. Monzon photographs urban banality as though it were a romantic painting, trying only to be “stronger than this big nothing” in controlling the space by framing the subject. Monzon’s aesthetic of the banal obeys its own rules: a ban on living objects, a precise geometrical organization, and the revelation of a specific physical and mental landscape blurring the lines between city and suburb, between suburb and countryside, a process that results in an independent identity.This aesthetic of the emptiness in my photographic work attempts to understand our current environment.
about the photographer
Emmanuel Monzon is a French photographer and visual artist based in Seattle, WA. He graduated from the Academy of Beaux-Arts in Paris, France with honors. His work has been featured throughout the US, Europe and Asia (through exhibitions, selections and various awards). Through his work, he explores and questions the signs of urban sprawl in our visual field. His photographic process is being influenced by his plastic art artist background.COLLECTION: ESSEL COLLECTION- Karlheinz Essl, founder of the ESSL Museum.
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