We often forget that most of the landscapes that surround us have nothing left of the wild or natural. Man transforms his environment, shapes it to his need, not consciously but often harmoniously, perhaps also by accident.
Thierry Ardouin interrogates these landscapes where, at first glance, there’s nothing to see.
Respecting both the usages of landscape photography, and the establishment of a subtle point of view, the image finds its strength in its implicit documentary aspect, but equally in the emergence it reveals. Two viewpoints intertwine; testimony and contemplation. The use of the chamber, the angle choices, and the very contrasting light lay the bases of this dual viewpoint. This method permits a thought-out photo, where one takes ones’ time. Behind the apparent emptiness, the landscape murmurs. In the folds of cultivated fields, between the sinuous lines that man has drawn, hides a world to discover; the plenitude of contemplation.
Thierry Ardouin
He was born in 1961 in Saint-Ouen.
Thierry Ardouin works on the connections sustained between man and his environment. While paying homage to time by his use of rare formats (pinhole, microphotography or chamber), he seeks the traces of the hand of man on the landscapes and the transformation of these. He thus questions the deep disconnection between humans and their planet.
1991 Creation of Tendance Floue.
1995 He dedicated himself entirely to photography.
2003 He photographed the great spaces with his large format camera.
2004-2006 It follows the construction of the rehabilitation of the French Cinematheque Built by Frank Gehry.
2011 Exhibition of « La bonne/mauvaise » graine at galerie Beaudoin Lebon, Paris.
2014 Exhibition of « La bonne/mauvaise » at Jardi Botanico de Valencia, Spain.
