Open Theme 2nd place winner

Statement:
URBAN SPRAWL
My work mainly focuses on the idea of urban sprawling and the urban expansion of its periphery.
When a banal landscape presents itself, I try to photography it like a romantic painting: zero effects, no amplitude, nothing huge. I am only trying to be stronger than “this big nothing” in controlling the space by framing the subject.
From my point of view, this urban banality has its own aesthetic which obeys to its own rules: ban of living objects, a precise geometrical organization, revealing a specific physical and mental landscape which talks about the lines blurring between cities and suburbs, between suburbs and countryside, a process that results in an independent identity.
This aesthetic of the emptiness in my photographic work attempts to understand our current environment: Can it be one of de-civilization?

STATEMENT:
Emmanuel Monzon is a French photographer and visual artist based in Seattle, WA. He graduated from the Academy of Beaux-Arts in Paris, France with honors. His work has been featured throughout the US, Europe and Asia (through exhibitions, selections and various awards). Through his work, he explores and questions the signs of urban sprawl in our visual field. His photographic process is being influenced by his plastic art artist background.


SELECTIONS 2018-2019: EXHIBITIONS/AWARDS
USA: Observations in the Ordinary by Subjectively Objective, Detroit.

Italy: URBAN LIGHTS Group Exhibition in Rome. By LoosenArt, June 2019.

USA: Blue Sky Gallery: Pacific Northwest Photography Viewing Drawers (Portland), Portland Photo Month. PhotoLucida.

USA:Camera USA® 2019: National Photography Exhibition and Award, FL.

AUSTRALIA: The Other Art Fair Sydney Presented by Saatchi Art. (Feature shoot).

CANADA: RKG Gallery: Solo Show (Urban Sprawl Emptiness) Toronto. arty.net.

USA: Clara M. Eagle Gallery: “The Magic Silver Show”. Murray State University KY.

USA: RI Center For Photographic Arts (RICPA). Rhode Island.By: Aline Smithson, founding editor of (LENSCRATCH).

HONG KONG: Fine Art Asia 2018 -Gallery CHARBON: show Antoine D'AGATA and Emmanuel MONZON-Booth G17-G19

USA: New York-Usagi Gallery in Brooklyn: Subjectively Objective-The Vernacular of Landscape.

INDIA: THE INDIA PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL-HYDERABAD 2018-Feature Shoot