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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

Emptiness: The work of Emmanuel Monzon focuses primarily on the idea of urban sprawling and the urban expansion of its periphery. Monzon photographs urban banality as though it were a romantic painting, trying only to be “stronger than this big nothing” in controlling the space by framing the subject. Monzon’s aesthetic of the banal obeys its own rules: a ban on living objects, a precise geometrical organization, and the revelation of a specific physical and mental landscape blurring the lines between city and suburb, between suburb 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.

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