This humanistic, philosophic and poetic tale was told in Chili, in the Atacama desert, in the Humberstone salitrera, producer of saltpeter until 1960 when it was abandoned for chemical fertilizers. Fallen prey to the scars of time, the streets of this old now phantom city bear the emotional footprints of the pampino workers. Future reality or pure fiction, TAPS, extinguishing fire features the last man facing the absence, facing himself, facing his memory and facing the emptiness. The movie entitled Hum by director Clément Darrasse, accompanies this project. It reveals the sounds and discrete movements of this ghost city in the desert. The first three letters of the name Humberstone used for the film’s title, signify, in English, humming.
The exhibition is produced by Les Promenades photographiques de Vendôme
Biography
Born in 1979, Dorothy-Shoes is a young French photographer.
An actress, she became a self-taught photographer in 2005. After her first exhibition in May 2006 at the Brussels “Objectif Gallery”, Dorothy Shoes exhibited throughout France in 2006 and 2007. In 2008, her work was featured in the French Cultural Centers of Jakarta, Surabaya and Bandung in Indonesia, before traveling to Ukraine. In 2009 Dorothy-Shoes was selected to represent photography at the “New Art Center” Gallery of New York, for the exhibition “LINKS” featuring six young French artists.
In 2010, with her series entitled «Et demain ? Portraits d’Avenir – Intimité photographique en milieu carcéral» based on life in prison, Dorothy-Shoes won two national awards: First prize for the Actuphoto award presided by Christian Caujolle (among 400 contestants), and 1st prize for the La Bourse du Talent Portrait 2010.
Dorothy Shoes’ work is frequently featured in newspapers and magazines around the world. She recently published the book “Django du Voyage” by the éditions du Rouergue.
