Born in France in 1974, Aymeric Fouquez obtained a degree from the National School for Photography, Arles and from the Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig. He works with landscapes, questioning the sense of space, always from a certain distance, documentary-wise.
In his serie Nord – North, Aymeric Fouquez shows his interest in the cemeteries spread all over the north of France and dedicated to English soldiers, who died during World War I. As a child he played in these closed and quiet grounds. “I don’t really know when it occurred to me that the fact I played football so many times on an English cemetery felt so awkward that I started to question myself: Was I the only boy of my age doing such an unexpected thing on these sites?”.
Behind his camera, all these military cemeteries become sites of both collective and individual commemoration, souvenirs from the past, still alive in the present. A century after the facts associated with these monuments of remembrance, Aymeric Fouquez tries to capture their presence in the vast agro-industrial territory of the North of France, covered with a light mist and sober colours.
FESTIVAL
Photo Phnom Penh 2013
November 30th – December 31st, 2013
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