3rd place
bronze star award
Patrick Desgraupes
france
title
From Grape to Stars
“From grape to Stars” is an ongoing Project. It was born out of the desire to show the process of transformation, which is inherent to the universe. In this case it is the transformation of grape into wine. This process started around 5000 years ago.
My wish is to highlight a chemical operation that the majority of the public never sees, in order to reveal its cosmic dimension.
These wines (*) are rare and precious, some of them are almost impossible to find. Almost all of them stand on small plots of 1 to 2 hectares, and derive their qualities and their complexity from exceptional terroir which, like our galaxy, carries with them the history of life. The great winegrowers who work there, true alchemists of our time, live in this search for excellence which requires at the same time rigor, listening, respect, sharing, imagination, all these qualities which constitute the search for the meaning of life and its transmission.
Some of the winemakers making these legendary iconic wines are considered as Stars.
Scientists have shown that the molecular diversity of a wine makes it possible to trace the evolution of its life and to read a "memory" of men. Furthermore, the slow evolution of the chemical particles of a wine inside a bottle is, on a smaller scale, similar to the evolution of microorganisms in the universe. So they use wine as a model to study the cosmos. Quoting a poet, Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on quantum mechanics said:
"The whole universe is in a glass of wine ...»
(*) Domaine de La Romanée Conti in Burgundy, Domaine Anselme Selosse in Champagne, Domaine Guigal and Le Clos Saint Patrice in Rhône Valley/France.
He currently lives and works in France.
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entry description
These photographs represent tanks of wine in fermentation, seen from above.“From grape to Stars” is an ongoing Project. It was born out of the desire to show the process of transformation, which is inherent to the universe. In this case it is the transformation of grape into wine. This process started around 5000 years ago.
My wish is to highlight a chemical operation that the majority of the public never sees, in order to reveal its cosmic dimension.
These wines (*) are rare and precious, some of them are almost impossible to find. Almost all of them stand on small plots of 1 to 2 hectares, and derive their qualities and their complexity from exceptional terroir which, like our galaxy, carries with them the history of life. The great winegrowers who work there, true alchemists of our time, live in this search for excellence which requires at the same time rigor, listening, respect, sharing, imagination, all these qualities which constitute the search for the meaning of life and its transmission.
Some of the winemakers making these legendary iconic wines are considered as Stars.
Scientists have shown that the molecular diversity of a wine makes it possible to trace the evolution of its life and to read a "memory" of men. Furthermore, the slow evolution of the chemical particles of a wine inside a bottle is, on a smaller scale, similar to the evolution of microorganisms in the universe. So they use wine as a model to study the cosmos. Quoting a poet, Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on quantum mechanics said:
"The whole universe is in a glass of wine ...»
(*) Domaine de La Romanée Conti in Burgundy, Domaine Anselme Selosse in Champagne, Domaine Guigal and Le Clos Saint Patrice in Rhône Valley/France.
about the photographer
Patrick Desgraupes is a French photographer. He has trained on the job in different Parisian studios and in labs, in which he acquired an understanding of light, one of the strong traits of his current works. He made photographs of portrait, fashion, decoration, architecture and still life. His work has been published since 2004 at Editions de la Martinière (his book on the National Parks of France gets the second place at the National Tourism Award in 2010 in Paris), in numerous magazines and brochures. He has become a recognized landscape specialist in the 4x5 inches large format camera, and his work has been published in the USA and in seven European countries. He has made numerous exhibitions in Iceland, Belgium, France for the National Parks of France and the Ministry of Ecology, in Slovenia, on the island of Reunion and in Guadeloupe. His photographs testify to his passion for light.He currently lives and works in France.
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