JOURNÉES
Thomas Gauthier
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Thomas Gauthier
With a limited depth of field and an offbeat perspective, Thomas Gauthier focuses on the slow corruption of places and renders a puzzle of the world to be rebuilt with a poetry left to everyone's gaze. He compresses spatial dynamics and brings to the fore his obsessions with walls, tarpaulins, panels and trees, seemingly insignificant elements that obstruct the view, but which reveal the deep shadows and pure forms of the city.
By summoning a pre-existing reality and putting it back into play with each image, Journées evokes vague memories, dreams, like these human silhouettes, these urban specters exposed to their vulnerability, which bring us back to our own daily temporality.
"Journée is a stroll. It is a visual poetry, a photographic story with an autobiographical character that offers a free interpretation of reality. The series is set on my daily journeys. The ones we walk through every day to go to work or to go shopping. Those times when we are glued to our phones or lost in our thoughts. In a society where nobody takes the time to look at the familiar space that surrounds them, I show here that the ordinary, the mundane, the routine can be full of poetry if you take the time to observe."
Nominated for Prix du Livre, Rencontres d'Arles 2023
By summoning a pre-existing reality and putting it back into play with each image, Journées evokes vague memories, dreams, like these human silhouettes, these urban specters exposed to their vulnerability, which bring us back to our own daily temporality.
"Journée is a stroll. It is a visual poetry, a photographic story with an autobiographical character that offers a free interpretation of reality. The series is set on my daily journeys. The ones we walk through every day to go to work or to go shopping. Those times when we are glued to our phones or lost in our thoughts. In a society where nobody takes the time to look at the familiar space that surrounds them, I show here that the ordinary, the mundane, the routine can be full of poetry if you take the time to observe."
Nominated for Prix du Livre, Rencontres d'Arles 2023
Première édition
18.60 x 25.10 cm
148 pages
73 images
Reliure dos carré cousu collé
Direction éditoriale : Caroline de greef
Graphisme : EYD
Janvier 2023
ISBN 978-2-490740-07-9
