For three decades, I have taken my images from the streets and photographed the people who pass through them. Under the influence of humanist photographers of the last century, I tried to freeze, on my black and white films, a tiny portion of the lives of the people I met, moments that were both banal and unique. The book “Inconnus Familiers / Familiar Unknowns (Snap Collective Publishing / London) is in a way the culmination of this approach, bringing together snapshots of strangers taken from life.
With the project “Under my feet”, ignoring the passers-by, I turned my gaze to the ground, scrutinizing these lines which guide us, protect us, constrain us, prohibit us. Like an artist who collects shells to make a necklace, I took my photographic material. I needed to get rid of reality and free myself from black & white. No longer to interpret reality but to truly create an offbeat image, both confused and marvelous, aesthetic and enigmatic. Dreamlike, transforming grayness into stained glass, scrap metal into enamel.
Exhibitions - publications:
"A look at the sustainable city" - June 2022 - Collective exhibition - Galerie Philippe Decorde, Strasbourg
"One hundred and ten years of the library" - December 2021. Collective exhibition. Library Lyon St Jean
Book "Inconnus Familiars / Familiar Unknowns" - Snapcollective Publishing London - November 2021.
"Cas d'eau" - November 2020. Black and white silver prints. Library Lyon St Jean
“Montreal, first stay” September 2019. Black and white silver prints. School of Practitioner Psychologists, Lyon
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For three decades, I have taken my images from the streets and photographed the people who pass through them. Under the influence of humanist photographers of the last century, I tried to freeze, on my black and white films, a tiny portion of the lives of the people I met, moments that were both banal and unique. The book “Inconnus Familiers / Familiar Unknowns (Snap Collective Publishing / London) is in a way the culmination of this approach, bringing together snapshots of strangers taken from life.
With the project “Under my feet”, ignoring the passers-by, I turned my gaze to the ground, scrutinizing these lines which guide us, protect us, constrain us, prohibit us. Like an artist who collects shells to make a necklace, I took my photographic material. I needed to get rid of reality and free myself from black & white. No longer to interpret reality but to truly create an offbeat image, both confused and marvelous, aesthetic and enigmatic. Dreamlike, transforming grayness into stained glass, scrap metal into enamel.
Exhibitions - publications:
"A look at the sustainable city" - June 2022 - Collective exhibition - Galerie Philippe Decorde, Strasbourg
"One hundred and ten years of the library" - December 2021. Collective exhibition. Library Lyon St Jean
Book "Inconnus Familiars / Familiar Unknowns" - Snapcollective Publishing London - November 2021.
"Cas d'eau" - November 2020. Black and white silver prints. Library Lyon St Jean
“Montreal, first stay” September 2019. Black and white silver prints. School of Practitioner Psychologists, Lyon
What is Hervé Pezzini’s artistic movement?
The artistic movements of the artists are: Photo Overlay
When was Hervé Pezzini born?
The year of birth of the artist is: 1959