While the Galerie Duboys continues its exhibition “3ème tour, musique d’une campagne“, Stéphanie de Rougé is also presenting in Paris a new series of photographs taken with an iPhone. The exhibition will be on display at the Galerie Photo12 until June 24.
“I have always been fascinated by airports. Always. My partner often asks me why I insist on arriving four hours early to the airport. He has trouble adjusting to the idea that, for me, these hours both at the airport and on the plane are the voyage. Before and after, all you have is reality, and no matter what kind of reality it is, it’s real.
Behind the glass doors, on the moving sidewalks, at the counter, in the private rooms, the baggage hold, on the escalators, standing before the duty-free shops, in the long hallways, on the plastic seats, underneath the arrival and departure monitors, at the checkpoints, behind the airplane windows, behind the folding curtains, under the red blanket—time disappears and space distends at the rate of weightlessness… It is this permanent and ephemeral “in-between” that intrigues me—the sensation that for a few hours we can be nothing, nobody, or anybody. It isn’t a question of changing skin, but of integrating oneself with this changing space-time, to become this eternal non-reality, to brush against the state of non-being, to become a big heap of emptiness, a mass of nothing, a transparency. Then anything is possible.”
SR
A French photographer living in New York since 2006, Stéphanie de Rougé teaches at the International Center of Photography. She has taken pictures for Le Monde Magazine, Images Magazine, ELLE, Io Donna, and Esquire, among others. She has also worked as a freelance photographer for The New York Times and is a frequent contributor to La Lettre.
Fasten seat belt – Stéphanie de Rougé
Voyage en iPhone entre ciel et terre
June 1 – 24, 2012
Galerie Photo12
14 Rue des Jardins Saint-Paul
75004 Paris
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