Urban Myopias

I have been taking street photography in a traditional way for a long time. Becoming particularly interested in creating visual abstraction related to the subjects I encountered on the street, I often shoot much tighter to the subjects that attract my attention.

In this « Urban myopia series », I use the contrast of light and shadow, lines and shapes, to produce an aesthetic dynamic – creating mystery around the subjects, challenging the viewer to take on board new perspectives and new understandings of what they see.
Subjects are isolated from their environment to make them more graphic, surreal and abstract. The images have no sense of scale, no social context, with a vanishing point that seems to turn inward toward the viewer. As I was testing different framings and degrees of desaturation, I opted for black and white, high contrast and square formats that accentuate a feeling of uncertainty and of dislocation of reality, such as we may experience when watching film noir movies.
My compositional choices tend here to cross boundaries between photography and abstract design, engaging viewers to become interested in looking into the images themselves, like we often do when looking at abstract art.