For the first time in France, Xan Padron, a Spanish artist based in New York, is exhibiting his Time Lapse series at the Delamour Gallery.
His photographic works explore and trace life in cities around the world.
The gallery offers among other things the most recent Time Lapse.
His father, a journalist, taught him the art of watching and listening with patience. Then at 13, he received his first camera from photojournalist Enrique Reza, who passed on his passion for everyday photography.
Becoming a professional musician, Xan Padron has had a career that takes him around the world with his bass and his camera, capturing the lives of musicians, concerts and the cities in which he travels.
Arriving in New York, he carried out several editorial photography jobs, then launched his “Time Lapse” project in 2011: portraits of cities around the world through the people who inhabit them. He carefully chooses a background, usually a colorful wall on which people parade. Then photographs the passers-by over a time lapse of around two to three hours, without being seen, in order to then be able to compose an image: the story of life in a given place, at a specific moment, thus documenting daily activity in a rhythmic and orderly sequence.
“These daily gestures, combined, create a unique story of life near a wall which is a space in the world. This project is not about the photos I take but about the life that emanates from a moment of observation, from a moment of pause.”
Xan Padron : Time Lapse
13 juin – 27 juillet 2024
Delamour Gallery
53, rue de Seine, (in the courtyard)
75006 Paris. France
www.delamourgallery.com
