The magazine FAST, published by the Born to Run ad agency, called upon the photographer Olivier Amsellem for its latest issue, whose theme is hunting.
“The point of this issue isn’t to honor or condemn hunting. Hunting is a fact. We’re just as much game as the animals. This is about a rediscovery, to reconnect with this visceral animality. It’s surprising, sometimes annoying, but we’re all animals. We’re all caught in the trap. I shoot to kill. I’ve always had a rather ambivalent relationship with the subjects in my photographs, always aware that I had taken a living moment and killed it with my camera, leaving only the memory. So I decided to frame my photographs very tightly and take pictures as if my camera were a gun.”
—Olivier Amsellem
Olivier Amsellem (b. 1971) splits his time between Paris and his hometown of Marseille. He presents his work as a mirror of the ordinary: “I photograph what’s nearby, commonplace, daily life, and try to identify the poetry in my surroundings.” This is why he chose to become a photographer, since it is, “the only truly popular art form. Not everyone can be a painter or a composer, but we are all photographers.” Since making a name for himself at the Hyères festival in 1998, Amsellem has enriched the strange and raw world of his work, contributing to Dazed & Confused, Purple and The New York Times.
EXHIBITION
Galerie spree
January 28 – February 10, 2014
Opening Thursday January 30th, 2014 6 – 9 pm
11 rue Lavieuville
75018 Paris
France
