ANTHROPOMORPHS, photo series, 2006.
By some subterfuge during the shooting, I transformed a winter landscape, a swan and a flower into human body elements: a woman's torso, a man's torso, a phallus.
As at first glance, the viewer does not know my intention, he is led to believe that he is making an anthropomorphic projection on these photos.
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Title: A female ttributs
Series: Anthropomorphic
Year: 2006
Dimensions : 30 x 90 cm
Technique: triptych, photo 1 of 3.
Limited edition of 20 copies
The landscapes of water being symmetrical, I knew that by dint of searching, I would find a landscape presenting several analogies with the female body. I chose this landscape because I saw there a body provided with all the female attributes: breasts, belly, hips, uterus and fallopian tubes. So I photographed this landscape so as to enhance my subject: front view, tight framing, 90 degree rotation, sepia photo ...
Title: Male torso
Series: Anthropomorphic
Year: 2006
Dimensions : 30 x 90 cm
Technique: triptych, photo 3 out of 3.
Limited edition of 20 copies
This photo shows the body of a swan like a male torso in profile: we can recognize the pectoral, deltoid, arm, forearm and curvature of the back.
Tight framing and 90 ° degree rotation is enough to give birth to a new image.
In the cold of winter, I tamed a swan long enough for it to stay close to me and accept that I approached to take this photo. If I had not observed swans in advance, then imagined that a swan could be seen as the torso of a man, I would never have been able to take this photo.