3rd place
bronze star award
Didier Fasensieux
france
title
Atlantic Wall - In the mist
Forgetting is a gigantic ocean on which sails a single vessel, which is memory. Amélie Nothomb.
My first camera was the one I left with my grandfather. I was then in university and taking my first steps in film photography with the modest means of the time. I wanted my photos to tell a story, to convey emotions...
Then the years passed, mainly devoted to work, and it is in the deep Amazonia that I lose my last film camera and my last rolls of film. I didn’t practice photography for many years, however thinking of returning to it one day...
Very attracted to portraiture and the artistic world, it was not until 2017 that I put my foot into the stirrup... digital this time. I make series of portraits of musicians, dancers, actors, screenwriters… that I come across during artistic events. I then try to develop images that are faithful to the perception I have of what they give me to see and transmit to me. Photography turns into an unsuspected architect of social ties that gradually tear me away from daily labor, opening wide the doors to artistic creation.
In 2019 I discovered the technique of long exposure and ventured out onto this terrain where time and light offer new spaces of freedom and inspiration. The large spaces that I love find their place here, in another dimension and under another light. The photographic creation generates new emotions, a feeling of plenitude, where the softness and minimalism of the images, reveal the true reflection of the feelings, opening on a peaceful world with which one feels in harmony...
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entry description
This series offers a peaceful look at the remains of a tormented period in our history. The night melts into the day which continues ... The sky, the mist, the ocean, open to the delights of a diaphanous glow, offering a sensation of plenitude, where the softness and minimalism of the images, reveal the true reflection of feelings, overlooking a peaceful world with which we feel in harmony ...Forgetting is a gigantic ocean on which sails a single vessel, which is memory. Amélie Nothomb.
about the photographer
Originally from a small village in the Landes, between Adour and the Ocean, I very early on fell in love with the great outdoors, seashores and rivers, calm and solitary landscapes.My first camera was the one I left with my grandfather. I was then in university and taking my first steps in film photography with the modest means of the time. I wanted my photos to tell a story, to convey emotions...
Then the years passed, mainly devoted to work, and it is in the deep Amazonia that I lose my last film camera and my last rolls of film. I didn’t practice photography for many years, however thinking of returning to it one day...
Very attracted to portraiture and the artistic world, it was not until 2017 that I put my foot into the stirrup... digital this time. I make series of portraits of musicians, dancers, actors, screenwriters… that I come across during artistic events. I then try to develop images that are faithful to the perception I have of what they give me to see and transmit to me. Photography turns into an unsuspected architect of social ties that gradually tear me away from daily labor, opening wide the doors to artistic creation.
In 2019 I discovered the technique of long exposure and ventured out onto this terrain where time and light offer new spaces of freedom and inspiration. The large spaces that I love find their place here, in another dimension and under another light. The photographic creation generates new emotions, a feeling of plenitude, where the softness and minimalism of the images, reveal the true reflection of the feelings, opening on a peaceful world with which one feels in harmony...
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