honorable mention
stephane Mirbeau france
title
is That your Garden
Waste generated by our ways of life is now part of our environment. With ITG, Stéphane Mirbeau adds to the original purity of the world the content of our rubbish bins. Using the ambiguity of this statement to reflect upon the place of beauty. As a former advertising photographer, he first mocks greenwashing, then he wonders about his own resilience capacity to follow a world he does not recognize anymore. A world he refuses but in which he participates and he may have to embrace.
There is no digital retouching... what you can see is the product of light, time and chance. The idea is to capture beauty in a random meeting. According to Stéphane Mirbeau, a way to approach a feeling of transcendence.
Are regrowth, self-sufficiency illusory concepts or a thought of a realistic and socially virtuous modernity ?
This matter is by now in the center of Stéphane Mirbeau's work. He now lives in the open country. Isolated, without the internet nor social network, with rustic methods, he experiments and develops his singular photography.
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entry description
Is that your garden, an ecological advocacy ?Waste generated by our ways of life is now part of our environment. With ITG, Stéphane Mirbeau adds to the original purity of the world the content of our rubbish bins. Using the ambiguity of this statement to reflect upon the place of beauty. As a former advertising photographer, he first mocks greenwashing, then he wonders about his own resilience capacity to follow a world he does not recognize anymore. A world he refuses but in which he participates and he may have to embrace.
There is no digital retouching... what you can see is the product of light, time and chance. The idea is to capture beauty in a random meeting. According to Stéphane Mirbeau, a way to approach a feeling of transcendence.
about the photographer
Born in 1965, Stéphane Mirbeau lives and works in the Touraine french countryside. With a BA of history of art, he opened an advertising shooting studio in paris in the late 80'S. A variety of mission that will allow him to indentify his own photographic predilections operating with wide format camera. From this professional path he has kept a significant technical background but, above all, a perplexed view over his job : To promote a world he did deplore was quite embarrassing for him. With that in mind he has moved to the countryside to work in artisanal logging. In 2017, regarding the societal issues our world has to face, Stephane Mirbeau decide to be involved as an artist. From now on, he dedicates himself to the elaboration of a personal work.Are regrowth, self-sufficiency illusory concepts or a thought of a realistic and socially virtuous modernity ?
This matter is by now in the center of Stéphane Mirbeau's work. He now lives in the open country. Isolated, without the internet nor social network, with rustic methods, he experiments and develops his singular photography.
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