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Description Vote for this serie at SFR Jeunes talents and JPG magazine

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Airports are some of the most secured public areas in the world. Dedicated to transit during the day, they turn into huge empty warehouses at night, where people waiting for their connection or early flights, and unable to afford a hotel room, try to find some sleep.

Train stations are located downtown, and therefore there are always some remnants of nightly activities inside or around them. Being disconnected from the city, airports are on the other hand a world apart where silence and absence of motion preside.

Through this work, I am trying to convey the eerie feeling that was always my silent partner during those many hours I spent wandering in airports. Every single night, a place dedicated to welcome thousands of people in motion turn into its exact opposite, and was never designed to be seen or even used like this. A perfect anomaly.

Light remains the principal character in this project. Clinical and blinding, oppressive for some and soothing for others, it leaves no place for concealment, and projects the visitor into an overwhelming sense of vacuity and absence. Artificial lights drawing the sleeping out of the shadowy enclaves they are used to; energy wastage subjugated to the security obsession : it is here that two fundamental contemporary preoccupations of our time collide head on.

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Avec l'augmentation constante du trafic aérien, la porte des grandes mégalopoles contemporaines est aujourd’hui plus que jamais l’aéroport. Dédiés au transit en journée, ils se transforment la nuit en de gigantesques entrepôts désertés, où les voyageurs attendant leur correspondance du matin ou ne pouvant s’offrir une chambre d’hôtel, tentent de trouver le sommeil.

La nuit, les gares ferroviaires, ancrées en centre ville, restent le centre névralgique de toute activité urbaine. Déconnecté du centre tout en faisant partie intégrante de la ville, l’aéroport est en revanche un monde à part ou le silence et l’immobilité dominent.

A travers ce travail, j’ai souhaité retranscrire le sentiment vaporeux et étrange qui m’a accompagné durant ces longues nuits d’errances photographiques. Chaque soir, un lieu dédié à l’accueil de milliers de personnes en mouvement se transforme en son contraire le plus parfait, et n’a jamais été conçu pour être vu ou même utilisé ainsi. Une anomalie quotidienne.

La lumière reste le personnage principal de ce projet. Chirurgicale et aveuglante, oppressante pour certains et reposante pour d’autres, elle ne laisse aucun espace à la dissimulation et projette le visiteur dans un vertigineux sentiment de vide et d’absence. Lumières artificielles tirant les dormeurs hors de la pénombre auxquelles ils sont habitués : gâchis énergétique concédé à l’obsession sécuritaire, c’est ici deux préoccupations contemporaines fondamentales qui se télescopent frontalement.
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Comments: 23

Night-Beast [2009-11-24 11:08:38 +0000 UTC]

Your work was featured here amd here .

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dwth [2009-06-26 12:31:11 +0000 UTC]

This photo have been featured on Thumbs of the Week 77th .

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Zarchasm [2009-06-23 03:54:21 +0000 UTC]

this literally took my breath away.

amazing.

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Synthetic-Ouroboros [2009-06-23 03:49:22 +0000 UTC]

the lighting in this reminds me of how off center I feel in airports, I love it

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DRIVINGYOU [2009-06-22 23:43:23 +0000 UTC]

Congratz tulations my friend. !!!

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oye In reply to DRIVINGYOU [2009-06-23 10:40:13 +0000 UTC]

Thanks ! I don't know who's that gonzale that featured me, but she's very nice !

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AscendingJustice [2009-06-22 22:41:12 +0000 UTC]

Brilliant concept! Awesome shots, too! I love the safe, secluded feeling it presents. Airports rock!

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candycontainerxxx [2009-06-22 20:58:15 +0000 UTC]

im amazed by this series, mostly by this piece. thanks for sharing

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PsychoactiveTV [2009-06-22 18:53:18 +0000 UTC]

the emptiness is vast and haunting. incredible work and text.

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kittifer [2009-06-22 18:05:13 +0000 UTC]

This captures that feeling perfectly. Good job

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maikarupikachu [2009-06-22 17:58:24 +0000 UTC]

wow wut this

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00alisa00 [2009-06-22 17:41:11 +0000 UTC]

Wow!
wonderful work!
beautiful perspective and nice management of lights and colors
on a great and true concept!
really interesting the comment too!
congrats on your DD,you really deserve it!

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Wizardinc [2009-06-22 15:40:26 +0000 UTC]

Grats on your DD

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First-kisses [2009-06-22 13:30:12 +0000 UTC]

Bery beautiful
I love the light

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gokhanproject [2009-06-22 09:44:53 +0000 UTC]

very nice work good composition...

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andreea-aquarius [2009-06-22 09:41:11 +0000 UTC]

The light is amazing.

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Yellowporsche [2009-06-22 07:55:53 +0000 UTC]

French makes much more sense when I see it in English first...I should let my french teacher know....

I love it but it hurts my eyes...I'm not one for light.

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MythArcana [2009-06-22 07:31:50 +0000 UTC]

Wow! The light and movement in this is just phenomenal! Even more incredible is the prose to this piece which is way more poetic and detailed than I could ever get with my crummy comment! LOL! Absolutely stunning! Excellent piece and congratulations on the DD!

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Ff-7 [2009-06-22 07:08:27 +0000 UTC]

Wow such a light *.*

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Criminal-Robot [2009-06-01 07:17:11 +0000 UTC]

Fluorescent lights man.. Hospitals.. Airports.. Kitchens..Sterile.. pale skin and shot eyes.

Really all good man, you captured the sterile generic efficient barebones banality of an airports.

Makes me think of the future.. from a 90's perspective haha

Dope! love it all

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Meolin [2009-05-14 15:20:22 +0000 UTC]

amazing colection.

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Glactor [2009-02-04 06:19:03 +0000 UTC]

Hey I saw your pics in JPG magazine, keep up the awesome work.

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euklides [2008-08-13 02:03:49 +0000 UTC]

This series is awesome! Compositions are strong geometrically, the bleched look works great; makes it feel like being stuck in the 'light at the end of the tunnel'; dying but not dead yet. Everybody seems so uncomfortable sleeping, which I'm sure they are. I always am, trying to sleep in an airport or train station. They fine you for 'out-stretch' and make the benches so that you can't lie down. Last time I slept at an airport was on a concrete ledge at Stockholm airport after getting in trouble riding an abandoned employee scooter/kickbike around at great speed and then plundering the 'illegal substances' bin at the check in gates (I got a beer and my girlfriend got some hand lotion).

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