honorable mention
Michel Kirch france
title
" Inner Beach "
It differs from the port, the shore of a wild coast or estuary, by its ludic, human and sensual sides. The beach has grown along with urbanization, which it seems vital outlet. More the city becomes oppressive, stressed, laborious, swarming and concrete, and more the beach looks like an obliged shadow, a double saving.
The one and the other are two sides of a world that becomes focused, uniformed, interconnected while emptying its traditional values.
The beach is the dream which support the urban pressure. By its nudity, by forgetting schedules, with a newfound sense of freedom, with its horizontal lines and its imposing nature, the beach contradicts the city while perpetuating it.
In this project I settled in the dreams of my characters. With them I watched the wide, invented games, and especially let thoughts wander. Because rid of clothes, tensions, obligations, schedules, identities, we allow free rein to the images, desires and to unexpected surprise ...
The beach is therefore a pretext, a way of approaching the self shores.
For this, the real has here just the importance of going beyond.
• Shows in Europe, USA and Asia. (60 shows in 15 countries)
• Represents France at the Alexandria Biennale in 2008.
• The Province of Milan chooses works from his series Climats to accompany a lecture by Edgar Morin and establish a link between Morin’s thinking and art.
• Becomes the first artist to be chosen by the foundation L’Art pour la Conscience, sponsored by Edgar Morin.
• Is chosen two years running (2009, 2010) by Esther Woerdehoff gallery for Paris Photo.
and for MIART and MIA in Milan (2010, 2011).
• Is selected three years running by Mac Paris (2009–2011).
• In 2010 his exhibition TransPhotographies is spotlighted by the City of Marseille.
• Invited by the John McDermott Gallery to the Angkor Foto Festival in 2010.
• Exhibition at Espace Cardin in Paris in december 2011 sponsored by Edgar Morin, with the backing of the ESA
• In June 2012 he is named Intercultural Ambassador by the UNESCO
• Invited by French Embassy in India to exhibit in New Delhi , 2013.
• Invited by UNESCO to exhibit during the Global Conference , 2013.
• Retrospective on various sites in the city of Metz, including the Musée de la Cour d’Or, 2014.
• Shows with Baudoin Lebon gallery at the Art O’Clock fair, Paris, 2013.
• Black and White magazine: Award Winner, Portfolio Contest, 2013.
• Grand Prix Eurazeo for Photography, 2013.
• Publication of the monograph “ “les éveillés”, 2014
• Invited by the Mairie de Paris for “Bridges and Cultures” , 2015
• Winner of the International Competition « Spirit of the Mediterranean », organized by PHOTOMED and LENSCULTURE. 2016
• « Monochrome Photographer of the Year « January 2017 (Monochrome Awards)
• Selected for Festfoto Brazil May 2017
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entry description
The beach is a contemporary place.It differs from the port, the shore of a wild coast or estuary, by its ludic, human and sensual sides. The beach has grown along with urbanization, which it seems vital outlet. More the city becomes oppressive, stressed, laborious, swarming and concrete, and more the beach looks like an obliged shadow, a double saving.
The one and the other are two sides of a world that becomes focused, uniformed, interconnected while emptying its traditional values.
The beach is the dream which support the urban pressure. By its nudity, by forgetting schedules, with a newfound sense of freedom, with its horizontal lines and its imposing nature, the beach contradicts the city while perpetuating it.
In this project I settled in the dreams of my characters. With them I watched the wide, invented games, and especially let thoughts wander. Because rid of clothes, tensions, obligations, schedules, identities, we allow free rein to the images, desires and to unexpected surprise ...
The beach is therefore a pretext, a way of approaching the self shores.
For this, the real has here just the importance of going beyond.
about the photographer
• Born in France, 1959.• Shows in Europe, USA and Asia. (60 shows in 15 countries)
• Represents France at the Alexandria Biennale in 2008.
• The Province of Milan chooses works from his series Climats to accompany a lecture by Edgar Morin and establish a link between Morin’s thinking and art.
• Becomes the first artist to be chosen by the foundation L’Art pour la Conscience, sponsored by Edgar Morin.
• Is chosen two years running (2009, 2010) by Esther Woerdehoff gallery for Paris Photo.
and for MIART and MIA in Milan (2010, 2011).
• Is selected three years running by Mac Paris (2009–2011).
• In 2010 his exhibition TransPhotographies is spotlighted by the City of Marseille.
• Invited by the John McDermott Gallery to the Angkor Foto Festival in 2010.
• Exhibition at Espace Cardin in Paris in december 2011 sponsored by Edgar Morin, with the backing of the ESA
• In June 2012 he is named Intercultural Ambassador by the UNESCO
• Invited by French Embassy in India to exhibit in New Delhi , 2013.
• Invited by UNESCO to exhibit during the Global Conference , 2013.
• Retrospective on various sites in the city of Metz, including the Musée de la Cour d’Or, 2014.
• Shows with Baudoin Lebon gallery at the Art O’Clock fair, Paris, 2013.
• Black and White magazine: Award Winner, Portfolio Contest, 2013.
• Grand Prix Eurazeo for Photography, 2013.
• Publication of the monograph “ “les éveillés”, 2014
• Invited by the Mairie de Paris for “Bridges and Cultures” , 2015
• Winner of the International Competition « Spirit of the Mediterranean », organized by PHOTOMED and LENSCULTURE. 2016
• « Monochrome Photographer of the Year « January 2017 (Monochrome Awards)
• Selected for Festfoto Brazil May 2017
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