Photograffiti Manchester (2011)
Who has not dream about getting into the fleeting thoughts of the people met in the streets? Who has not dream about breaking the restrictive and customary indifference?
The photographic alibi has offered me the excuse and the courage to get over the other.
The photograffiti method:
To walk in the streets and focus my eyes on someone. To approach and ask this personn: which message do you have to the world? All this, with the idea to take a full-body portrait of the person with the message written on a placard. The first one shot with a polaroïd offered to the messenger, the second one, a black and white photo negative that I will fly-post next to the place we met.
To accept the refusals
To suffer weird looks
Finally, to find the warm-hearted passers-by complicity.
To trust each other, share their secrets, know their intimacy, and help them to transfer their message.
To photograph them, offer them the polaroïd, ask their names, thanks them.
…and start again.
Sometimes, I have had to visit associations, specilaized centers. Get closer to those that are afraid of being excluded, win their trust. Give a voice to those that are on the margins of society.
The photograffitis (mix of photography and graffiti) are realized and exposed in public places in Manchester, places where these human encounters are marked for ever.
This project redraw the people, their differences, their dreams, their illusions… LIFE.
The photographic alibi has offered me the excuse and the courage to get over the other.
The photograffiti method:
To walk in the streets and focus my eyes on someone. To approach and ask this personn: which message do you have to the world? All this, with the idea to take a full-body portrait of the person with the message written on a placard. The first one shot with a polaroïd offered to the messenger, the second one, a black and white photo negative that I will fly-post next to the place we met.
To accept the refusals
To suffer weird looks
Finally, to find the warm-hearted passers-by complicity.
To trust each other, share their secrets, know their intimacy, and help them to transfer their message.
To photograph them, offer them the polaroïd, ask their names, thanks them.
…and start again.
Sometimes, I have had to visit associations, specilaized centers. Get closer to those that are afraid of being excluded, win their trust. Give a voice to those that are on the margins of society.
The photograffitis (mix of photography and graffiti) are realized and exposed in public places in Manchester, places where these human encounters are marked for ever.
This project redraw the people, their differences, their dreams, their illusions… LIFE.
