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| 2010 © Coastline Xiao Zhang |
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| On the way to Tepeyac © Echeverria Alinka |
So there you are sitting at a table, a desk instead of imposing size, in order to file 625 records. Well organized, you make piles of 25, which gives us 41 columns spread over an area of 2.2 m by 0.8 m, the batteries must be securely positioned on pain of irretrievable disaster (the images would form then randomly and form topics polyphonic). The air is pure, a light breeze carries you on a sea of images. You pull one edge under spinnaker and a first natural selection reduces the distance that will take you to your destination, ie to this archipelago of 12 islands some charms. Desk top cleared, despite all the horizon is still blocked, you remaining 41 columns of 8 cases (328 eyes still on the world). Your name is Agnes Sire, admiral of the Fondation Cartier-Bresson, routes oceanne, racing in the open ocean, you know. It is time to put more sail in the mature sharpen the eye and draw a second edge, the list is good, the assistants to the recall. You love photography, not that of Jacques Cousteau, in spite of your admiration for the banns of coral. No, this photograph tells the world, this ocean of possibilities, of waves of incredible destinations, China in turmoil, layoffs rising, and dwarfism in Africa still Palestine. Vous aimez ces vols d'étourneaux comme des cartes du ciel qui aident votre navigation nocturne. Et le noir et blanc déchirant, ces lumières du grand nord, ces petits riens décrits avec finesse. Les alizés sont enfin arrivés, la mer est calme, le plateau dégagé. Ne reste en vis à vis que douze dossiers, douze regards singuliers, douze perles dans un océan d'images.
Bertrand Desprez
And the two winners are Alinka Echeverria and Xiao Zhang! two wonderful photographers but opposed to the books telling them how the fate of humanity in the open questioning ...
China offers 18 000 km coastline between the Beilun River Estuary and the south of the Yalu north. These shores are the "windows China" on the outside world. They are also place of rapid urbanization, more than in the rest of the country. These seaside are the subject of a dream for many Chinese who leave the countryside to get there by mass , hoping to find work and a life easier. Xiao Zhang delivers an amazing drift along the coast. He describes it as "beautiful and painful. " We see the holiday marriages, waste, loneliness, a China
intimate and contemporary without ease exotic. This young Chinese artist, already noticed China for his work at the Three Shadows Photography Art Center , is fascinated by the sea since childhood, where he seeks a "residence for his soul" and manages to capture in this wandering over the water, images extremely a strong China at the crossroads of two worlds
Text Agnès Sire, 2011 artistic advisor
Xiao Zhang was born in 1981 and lives in Chengdu in China, having studied as an architect, he turned to photography
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| coastline © 2010 Xiao Zhang |
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| 2010 © Xiao Zhang |
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| 2010 © Xiao Zhang |
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| 2010 © Xiao Zhang |
ALINK ECHEVERRIA
Each year, six million pilgrims cheminent vers la basilique de la Guadalupe près de Mexico. Construite au XVIIe siècle sur les ruines du temple de Tepeyac, ancien lieu sacré de la déesse aztèque Tonantzin, cette église symbolise le passage des anciennes civilisations vers la colonisation espagnole. La Vierge y fit plusieurs apparitions et son image est devenue extrêmement importante pour les mexicains. Lors de ce pèlerinage, les fidèles drop representation of the Virgin that they have at home, and carry on the holy place for it to be blessed. The approach of Alinka Echeverria, a young Mexican artist in residence at School of Arles this year, is exemplary: 300 pilgrims were photographed walking with their trophy then clipped to that figure is only one back with his precious burden. Santons faceless mannequins or just casual travelers carrying a large shield? Nobody knows if it is informed because the de-contextualization intended by the author allows to focus on individual attitudes, these bodies carrying not not a hard and heavy cross, but a revered Virgin. accumulation of characters, the beauty and strangeness of their harness, are an exceptional series which allows visualize the enormity of this belief, the beauty of movement and probably the metaphor of Mexican surrealism.
Text Agnès Sire, 2011 artistic advisor
The foundation is a wonderful springboard for a photographer. I had the chance to be winner in the early years, the number of records were not as important. Awareness of the price being more to do, a new international dimension gives it a new visibility on premiums for the first time a Chinese photographer and a Mexican photographer. Both works are exceptional and I look forward to the release of monographs by Actes Sud.
Laureates by year [ change ]
1996 : Éric Prinvault et Henry Ray
1997 : Bertrand Desprez et Jean-François Campos
1998 : Milomir Kovačević et Seton Smith
1999 : Catherine Gfeller and Yoshiko Murakami
2000 : Carole Fékété ; and Valérie Belin
2001 : Jo Lansley , Helen Bendon et Franck Christen
2002 : Laurence Demaison et Rip Hopkins
2003 : Laurence Leblanc et Mathieu Bernard-Reymond
2004 : Patrick Taberna et Malala Andrialavidrazana
2005 : Eric Baudelaire et Birgitta Lund .
2006 : Christophe Clark , Virginie Pougnaud , Marina Gadonneix
2007 : Julia Fullerton-Batten et Matthew Pillsbury
2008 : Aurore Valade and Guillaume Lemarchal
2009 : Matthew Gafsou and Gregory Alexander
2010 : Laurent Hopp et le duo Lucie & Simon
Je parlerai brièvement d'un nouveau projet, initié l'année précédente par Chantal Nedjib, Christine Raoult et toute l'équipe de la fondation HSBC pour l'éducation . Des ateliers photographiques ont été organisés dans le cadre du projet "Déclics et des classes" dans différentes schools and colleges, mentored by former winners and the result projected at the Rencontres d'Arles demonstrated the importance of building bridges between education and the world of the image. Thank you for this wonderful initiative.
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