For seven years, the Prix Levallois has supported the work of young photographers 35 years old and younger. Open to all areas of international contemporary photography without exclusion, each year it brings out new talent and opens the door to recognition in the future. In 2015, the Levallois award was awarded to Tom Callemin with a Special Mention to David Fathi. This year the general public was also invited to participate on line and the Audience Award was given to Grégoire Pujade-Lauraine.
The exhibition, presented by the Levallois award at the Galerie de L’Escale in Levallois until 28th November, pays homage to the work of these three award-winning photographers.
Created over five years between 2010 and 2015, the dozen works by Tom Callemin gathered here are striking in their effectiveness and their formal closeness: the gaze is invariably drawn to a motif in the centre (body, architecture or object) that, powerfully lit with flash, is cut out against a black background. Index, the title of the exhibition, evokes as much the pointing finger as the reference or the classification: doubtless aimed, ironically, at covering the tracks, since Callemin is not an entomologist listening to the nocturnal specimens caught in the light of his flash.
Since the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, more than 2,000 atomic bombs have exploded on our planet. For two years David Fathi has investigated what he calls “the original sin of science”: the A-bomb. From a click in the crater, he began collecting strange objects, some oddly shaped stones on eBay and some especially grotesque stories. From these stories he concocts images where fiction intermingles with reality.
By the subtle, mutes colours of his series A Perpetual Season, Grégoire Pujade-Lauraine captures the feeling of alienating emptiness caused by a lot of our architectural environment. By remaining invariably oblique in his view and his spatial position, he confronts the spectator with the geometries of modernity and their impact on those who inhabit them.
EXHIBITION
Prix Levallois 2015
From Octobre 9 to November 28h, 2015
Galerie de L’escale – Levallois
25 rue de la Gare
92300 Levallois-Perret
France
T : 01 47 15 74 56
http://prix-levallois.com
