Emile Hyperion dubuisson #Photographe
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Concours Les lauréats du Concours pour la Photographie du Royal Monceau sont... Livre « Far » by Emile Hyperion Dubuisson Modifier l'image
Paris, le vendredi 13 mai 2011 – Le Comité de Sélection du Concours pour la Photographie du Royal Monceau - Raffles Paris (http://www.actuphoto.com/18618-concours-du-royal-monceau-pour-la-photographie.html) s’est réuni hier pour procéder au choix des lauréats d’une première édition consacrée au thème du portrait.
Les 5 lauréats sont : Cerise Doucède, Emile Hyperion Dubuisson, Laura Henno, Cara Phillips, Ofer Wolberger.
Ce concours, qui portait cette année sur le thème du portrait, a pour vocation d’accompagner l’émergence de jeunes photographes dont les œuvres viendront enrichir la collection de l’hôtel. Il a enregistré cette année 154 candidatures.
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This previously unpublished series of photographs was made in Siberia in the early 1990s while Dubuisson was working as assistant director in a film crew shooting a documentary about the former Soviet Union. Challenged by the extreme conditions, filming was difficult and Dubuisson began taking pictures with a small all-weather camera around the villages in the Yamal Peninsula where gas workers, scientists and local reindeer herders lived and worked. On his return to Moscow, Dubuisson struggled to process his film and believed his negatives to have been damaged beyond repair. It is only recently that he returned to this material and has finally been able to produce photographic prints. The resulting images offer a strange, poetic vision of the bleakness of Siberia evoking its remoteness in both time and space through a...