honorable mention
Manuel Bravo Huelamo france
title
The Blue Marble
It all started one day when I was having fun with my camera, my cell phone flash and my childhood marbles. Alone in the dark, I turned around these new subjects. Once the ball was placed on the flash of the phone, its light beam pierced the small sphere. The white light penetrated the coloured glass and I captured the strange result. Planets, moons, stars, suddenly the universe was at hand. Who are we if not unique navigators aboard a ship made of life ? How do we see our ideal planet ? If we were Earth, what would we look like ? To answer all these questions, I decided to offer these images to people who were important to me, people who had marked me in my journey to today. Each had to choose a planet and name it. The next step was to write a text and compose music.
His taste for photography was born in high school art classes. His grandfather, a filmmaker and architect, inspired his gaze, especially during his trip to Chile. Later at the age of 25, he had the opportunity to deepen his photographic gaze thanks to the REZA Workshops set up as part of his Civic Service. This meeting with the great photographer inspired him in turn. He worked for 6 months on graphic composition during the workshops. Subsequently, he continues on the voice of the association and returns to photography in 2018 in a self-taught way by buying a case and a lens. It benefits from a small workshop to take in hand the DSLR camera at the Espace Saint-Cyprien. Then, he trains covering concerts at the associative café Maison Blanche, the group Rue Ketanou, Collectif 13... In parallel, he created his micro-business to work as a portrait photographer for the start-up Ever. This occupational activity ceases following confinement. He continues to practice photography in his daily life and wants to relaunch this activity in a professional way.
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entry description
On December 7, 1972, the crew of Apollo 17 took the first photograph of Earth at a distance of approximately 45,000 km in space. They decided to call it “The Blue Marble”, the Blue Marble.It all started one day when I was having fun with my camera, my cell phone flash and my childhood marbles. Alone in the dark, I turned around these new subjects. Once the ball was placed on the flash of the phone, its light beam pierced the small sphere. The white light penetrated the coloured glass and I captured the strange result. Planets, moons, stars, suddenly the universe was at hand. Who are we if not unique navigators aboard a ship made of life ? How do we see our ideal planet ? If we were Earth, what would we look like ? To answer all these questions, I decided to offer these images to people who were important to me, people who had marked me in my journey to today. Each had to choose a planet and name it. The next step was to write a text and compose music.
about the photographer
Manuel Bravo Huelamo was born on 21 May 1989 to a Chilean father, a musician who had fled the dictatorship of his country and a Spanish mother, a teacher in search of freedom. He grew up in Seine-Saint-Denis and Eure-et-Loir, gradually opening up to different arts. It begins with the music with the piano, the percussion and the drums, the beatmaking that accompany it still today in many projects. In parallel, he began writing poems, short stories and more recently a science fiction/dystopian novel «La Poussière Bleue».His taste for photography was born in high school art classes. His grandfather, a filmmaker and architect, inspired his gaze, especially during his trip to Chile. Later at the age of 25, he had the opportunity to deepen his photographic gaze thanks to the REZA Workshops set up as part of his Civic Service. This meeting with the great photographer inspired him in turn. He worked for 6 months on graphic composition during the workshops. Subsequently, he continues on the voice of the association and returns to photography in 2018 in a self-taught way by buying a case and a lens. It benefits from a small workshop to take in hand the DSLR camera at the Espace Saint-Cyprien. Then, he trains covering concerts at the associative café Maison Blanche, the group Rue Ketanou, Collectif 13... In parallel, he created his micro-business to work as a portrait photographer for the start-up Ever. This occupational activity ceases following confinement. He continues to practice photography in his daily life and wants to relaunch this activity in a professional way.
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