Salon Art Shopping

( Photographe) - Edition Mai 2011

"My camera is my brush and the way I use it is my way of painting".

Artist photographer of African origin, born in Paris in the sixties, my approach of the photography is mostly inspired by African anti-realistic art, Cubism and abstract art. Not being a painter, I had to revise my aesthetic conception of the photography, in order to conceive it as a painting going towards more abstraction. I built my photographic technique in this optic. It consists in freeing photography from extern reality - even if the principle of photography returns us necessarily to it - to aim towards abstract phases. I have labelled this technique "chromatic anamorphosis" (rendering the illusion of a distortion of the image's content by using a specific chromatic treatment). This technique allows me to twist the space-time and to create a pictorial space which deals with atopia and anomia. It leaves the observer with its own impressions: its sensations or/and its representations.
After numerous exhibitions, I have recently published a book on this work.
http://fr.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1950629

Galerie Mecenavie: Stands B10 et B11