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Once this panel is passed, contemplation gradually gives way to disarray. The decrepit facades and social housing of the city center succeed the bourgeois residences of its perimeter. Participation 15/15 – Pierre-Louis Ferrer.
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Many businesses are for sale, while other buildings appear to have been hit by bombing and left as they are, as witnesses to a war that never took place here. Participation 15/15 – Pierre-Louis Ferrer.
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The atmosphere is such that the absence of passers-by in the middle of the day is not shocking; on the contrary, it tragically fits into the picture of a ghost town center. Participation 15/15 – Pierre-Louis Ferrer.
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However, the end of the trip is hopeful: the Saint-Macloud church, undergoing renovation work, illuminates the dark streets like a lighthouse in a storm, and invites the viewer to meditate. Participation 15/15 – Pierre-Louis Ferrer.
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The main theme covered in this series is invisibility. This invisibility is first characterized by the technique used to create this series: by photographing in the infrared domain, I capture a light signal invisible to the naked eye, revealing a nature with bright red hues. According to the spectator’s progression, red energizes, destabilizes then dramatizes. […]
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This capture of the physical invisible is used in the revelation of a social invisibility. Bar-sur-Aube symbolizes many cities in the region, media anonymous, sharing the same state of cultural and economic abandonment. Participation 15/15 – Pierre-Louis Ferrer.
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Who could believe that such a situation could exist in 2020 less than three hours from Paris, in a region benefiting from such natural wealth? Participation 15/15 – Pierre-Louis Ferrer.
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Finally, the impact of social invisibility is reinforced by the human invisibility characterizing each of my images: the spectator is directly immersed in each scene, without the possibility of concealing himself through a passer-by, in order to be totally faced with this situation. Participation 15/15 – Pierre-Louis Ferrer.
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The series “Demain dès l’Aube” was therefore built as a social testimony, a spotlight on an invisible French rurality, through an outside perspective. Participation 15/15 – Pierre-Louis Ferrer.
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I wanted to portray my feelings as closely as possible during this stay in a city, and more generally in a region that I did not know until now. Participation 15/15 – Pierre-Louis Ferrer.
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My goal is to get the spectator to follow the same journey, to be faced with the same reality, to make him aware of this situation. Participation 15/15 – Pierre-Louis Ferrer.
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taken i n small park in Port Washington, NY