honorable mention
Jean-Thomas Bédard canada
title
LOW TIDE – AN ARTISTIC APPROACH
Like a child collecting shells on the beach at low tide, I enjoy spending hours and days bringing to light the infinite treasures hidden in the banks and shores of the St. Lawrence River. With mixed feelings about their fragility, I have chosen to focus my artistic eye on this singular and fascinating world, those buffer zones between the land and the sea revealed at low tide. I am attempting to capture a part of their astounding beauties, beauty that can hold its own against the masterpieces of non-figurative art.
My approach to photography has become my way to express my creativity with the textures and colors that unfold on the Saint Laurence river and estuary shores. I am fascinated by the shapes formed through a mysterious alchemy created by the slow upheaval of geological time and the relentless action of the tides.
Through each composition, my artistic eye proposes an order within the chaos of stones buffeted by the elements, attempting to share a portion of the beauty of the world. And simultaneously, I propose a reflection on time, on fragility, on the power of the elements and on our relation with nature.
These images tell the geological story engraved in the stones of the littoral of St. Lawrence River but they moreover represent my intimate quest of beauty and poetry through these natural elements overturned by cataclysms, metamorphosis and erosion of time.
When he was 32, he travelled for one year all over the world while he devoted himself to photography. He extruded from his journey to put on a photo exibitions held in Montreal and Toronto (York University) illustrating the traditional way of living in Central America, Pacific region and Indonesia. He put on also its paintings in various exhibitions.
Nowaday he is dedicated in photographical search for textures and colors issued from wild life to creations evoking non-figurative art. His favorite theme revolves around the many-sided of the banks of the Saint Laurence River and estuary in the province of Quebec. He also takes various close up of remarkable natural elements used as samples to create complex visual compositions.
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entry description
Like a child collecting shells on the beach at low tide, I enjoy spending hours and days bringing to light the infinite treasures hidden in the banks and shores of the St. Lawrence River. With mixed feelings about their fragility, I have chosen to focus my artistic eye on this singular and fascinating world, those buffer zones between the land and the sea revealed at low tide. I am attempting to capture a part of their astounding beauties, beauty that can hold its own against the masterpieces of non-figurative art.
My approach to photography has become my way to express my creativity with the textures and colors that unfold on the Saint Laurence river and estuary shores. I am fascinated by the shapes formed through a mysterious alchemy created by the slow upheaval of geological time and the relentless action of the tides.
Through each composition, my artistic eye proposes an order within the chaos of stones buffeted by the elements, attempting to share a portion of the beauty of the world. And simultaneously, I propose a reflection on time, on fragility, on the power of the elements and on our relation with nature.
These images tell the geological story engraved in the stones of the littoral of St. Lawrence River but they moreover represent my intimate quest of beauty and poetry through these natural elements overturned by cataclysms, metamorphosis and erosion of time.
about the photographer
Painter, film maker and photographer, born in Lac-Saint-Jean region (Prov.of Québec, Canada), Jean-Thomas Bédard started to draw and paint at 12 leading him when he was 20 at École des Beaux Arts de Montréal and then at the National Film Board of Canada. He worked for NFB over 30 years as director of documentaries and animated films. He won in 1979 and 1980 3 awards in international film festivals(Chicago, Oberhausen and Annecy) for Chairmen, an animated film using photographs to recreate movements of the caracters.When he was 32, he travelled for one year all over the world while he devoted himself to photography. He extruded from his journey to put on a photo exibitions held in Montreal and Toronto (York University) illustrating the traditional way of living in Central America, Pacific region and Indonesia. He put on also its paintings in various exhibitions.
Nowaday he is dedicated in photographical search for textures and colors issued from wild life to creations evoking non-figurative art. His favorite theme revolves around the many-sided of the banks of the Saint Laurence River and estuary in the province of Quebec. He also takes various close up of remarkable natural elements used as samples to create complex visual compositions.
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