Honorable Mention
Sweet Head
DESCRIPTION
What is a wiped head? What is a "no portrait"? What is a street, from its furniture, which erases your face? What is a city that hides you? Is it to protect you or to swallow you? A strange breach, a pure well, a blank canvas filled with our own physiognomic lines. Thus evolves, the faceless man, in a generic waltz which refers to all other faces, in a one-way relationship, without an image and without return or rather the return could only be imagined. In short, an intrigue, where by looking for somebody, one ends up finding himself! AUTHOR
Hakim Boulouiz is a Professional Photographer and an Expert in Urban aesthetics with a multidisciplinary training. After receiving a diploma in Architecture, a diploma in Filmmaking, a Master's degree in Territory Planning, he completed a PhD at the University of Geneva analyzing the mutual inspiration between urban modernity and the art of short film. Hakim considers street photography as a visual recycling. Like a sculptor manufacturing several forms from scrap metal or a designer working to give waste new life in a new use. Hakim has won several international photography awards. He is active in street photography around the world. He currently lives and works in Switzerland. 