honorable mention
Marie Marchandise france
title
Movements
It is a collective work, with a team composed of talented persons: Michelle Tshibola, artist, seamstress, and owner of the brand Michelle TSM², Agnès Tassel, model, Hugo Bardin, hair artist, Océane Susini, make up artist, and Marie Marchandise, photographer and art director.
It is a remote photo shoot because I, the photographer and art director must stay quarantined due to my chronic disease.
With this project, I wanted to find a new type of energy, different from on-site photoshoots, I wanted to find a sense of liveliness that seems to always be compromised when you’re quarantined. That’s how I started collecting my thoughts and wondered: how can I show my energy, how can I show that I too can produce artistic work, even differently, how can I show that I still exist and am still in the game?
That’s how naturally I started doing collages of the different photographs taken and in the meantime, I dwelled on the definition of movements and photography: how can I create motions with elements so still such as photographs?
My objective was to produce abstract compositions. I wanted to reproduce different effects: flipbooks, shadows, and superpositions through tracing papers.
With this photoshoot, I made the most of my artistry while being quarantined. I experienced a similar synergy than on-site photoshoots’ with the group I worked with. Through a lot of editing, prints, cuttings, sewings, collages, I let my imagination ran wild. The result was materialized through different vibrant collages. I want to remind people that there are other ways to work as a photographer and that chronically ill artists must have access to opportunities.
When I was a child, I wanted to be a poet. Growing up, I’ve been obsessed with the fact that I actually wanted to be helpful: I wanted to be a vet, a psychologist, a lawyer.
I guess with photography, I combine the inherent desire of my first dream job as a child and my inner need and enthusiasm that have been developed from my teenage years to adulthood.
On a personal level, I love exploring new artistic techniques, sometimes that I invent myself, as I really feel that I’m letting my inner child out by doing so, and I hope that what I create lets people escape, only for a few minutes.
If you feel something when looking at my photographs, it means that my job is done, if you are inspired, motivated, looking for something new thanks to them, it’s more than I could ever dream of.
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entry description
“Movements” is a two parts photoshoot that took place between Paris and Toulouse. It is a safely-distanced photoshoot whose photos resulting from it were printed and assembled in different collages.It is a collective work, with a team composed of talented persons: Michelle Tshibola, artist, seamstress, and owner of the brand Michelle TSM², Agnès Tassel, model, Hugo Bardin, hair artist, Océane Susini, make up artist, and Marie Marchandise, photographer and art director.
It is a remote photo shoot because I, the photographer and art director must stay quarantined due to my chronic disease.
With this project, I wanted to find a new type of energy, different from on-site photoshoots, I wanted to find a sense of liveliness that seems to always be compromised when you’re quarantined. That’s how I started collecting my thoughts and wondered: how can I show my energy, how can I show that I too can produce artistic work, even differently, how can I show that I still exist and am still in the game?
That’s how naturally I started doing collages of the different photographs taken and in the meantime, I dwelled on the definition of movements and photography: how can I create motions with elements so still such as photographs?
My objective was to produce abstract compositions. I wanted to reproduce different effects: flipbooks, shadows, and superpositions through tracing papers.
With this photoshoot, I made the most of my artistry while being quarantined. I experienced a similar synergy than on-site photoshoots’ with the group I worked with. Through a lot of editing, prints, cuttings, sewings, collages, I let my imagination ran wild. The result was materialized through different vibrant collages. I want to remind people that there are other ways to work as a photographer and that chronically ill artists must have access to opportunities.
about the photographer
I’m a 27 years old photographer living in Toulouse, southern France.When I was a child, I wanted to be a poet. Growing up, I’ve been obsessed with the fact that I actually wanted to be helpful: I wanted to be a vet, a psychologist, a lawyer.
I guess with photography, I combine the inherent desire of my first dream job as a child and my inner need and enthusiasm that have been developed from my teenage years to adulthood.
On a personal level, I love exploring new artistic techniques, sometimes that I invent myself, as I really feel that I’m letting my inner child out by doing so, and I hope that what I create lets people escape, only for a few minutes.
If you feel something when looking at my photographs, it means that my job is done, if you are inspired, motivated, looking for something new thanks to them, it’s more than I could ever dream of.
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