Honorable Mention
The person-inside
DESCRIPTION
after 9 months of work and a project involving 45 people, Ihave just finished the model of my first book: “La personne-intérieur” (the person-inside). Initially, with a protocol I developed, I had the (utopian) ambition to show the aesthetics of intimacy, from an authentic point of view, of the photographer-model relationship. Am I a medium or have I really penetrated this intimacy? The answer is a 120-pages book, with the successes and failures, with a sensitive approach in the pictures and texts (alone or combined), in order to be able to establish a homogeneous and personalized speech.
http://malapris.com/albums/la-personne-interieur/
AUTHOR
Schizothymic baby-boomer, at the age of 12 Francis takes refuge in computer science and excels in this field despite social and academic failure. In 1996, as he becomes an engineer, he meets the need to preserve memories of the Moment and tries photography. Gradually, this utopia fades to give way to the sensitivity he has so long repressed. 20 years later, he is an accomplished self-taught artist through the study of technique and the masters who inspire him such as Raymond Depardon, Rafael Minkkinen and Daido Moriyama.Key encounters have formed his photographic approach to bring him to social contact and staging. He then abandons computer sciences to exploit his bubbling creativity, full of sensitivity. The human being is then at the center of his work, after the fashion of the "Self" (Freud), which lies between unconscious desires and moral standards. Affected by the death of a friend, he undertakes a strong introspection that will highlight neuroses that he crystallizes through nude photography. In 2011, he begins the "IN SITU" project about mental escape, a phenomenon that concerns him. In 2014, he develops a shooting process to build the "AQUATIC" series. In 2017, the images encounter a great success, are published and exhibited at the FEPN in Arles, namely with the festival bill. With his installation in the heart of the Saint Anne chapel, Francis goes beyond photography to offer a contemporary art installation which sublimates female energy.