For its new Portrait de Ville, Éditions Be-Pôles gave Vincent Fournier the carte blanche.
The city he decided to capture was Brasilia. In this travel journal, he delivers a fragment of the city, and he wants it all: dizzying angles, hyper-calibrated lines, saturated colors and empty spaces. Its rationalized nature, its ambition and its people. A day in the life, but scripted.
The human being in excess.
By mixing a documentary approach with a “staged” aesthetic, his vision of Brasilia takes us to the border of reality and anticipation, like in our childhood dreams where reality mixed with science-fiction fantasies.
The reader embarks on a timeless voyage into an iconic landscape of contemporary urban utopias.
Vincent Fournier was born in Ouagadougou in 1970. His stories of traveling the world, on the moon, underground, in a room, at the end of the street, are interpreted with a sense of irony and beauty that seems like a mixture of Jules Verne and Jacques Tati.
In 2007. Be-Pôles. Graphic design studio. First four cities. Four photographers. Four books. This is the beginning of a long journey… Four years later, 15 Portraits de Villes have been published. Each book was a unique journey seen through the eyes of a photographer. A disconcerting, intimate and personal journey.
