jerome coton
Collapse (Series)
DESCRIPTION
Constantly manipulated by man, nature appears to us more and more distant. The control of this one by the genetics and the uninhibited productivism, separates us little by little from this unfailing link that we had with it since the dawn of time. Here, the plants photographed in a clinical way like packshots, are the cold reflection of our vision of the living become product.
Beyond consumerism, this series refers us to our own Homo sapiens condition. Like these plants, we become the silent products of a trading society; manipulated by economic and political concepts, we are slaves to a way of life devoid of common sense. Our vision of the world is gradually closing on us in a disproportionate blindness. This modern reality in which the present is all-powerful, made us forget the stakes of the time and the terrible threat weighing on future generations: their obsolescence, programmed by ours.
AUTHOR
I was born in 1978 in the Paris region. Since my earliest childhood, my imagination has helped me to go through reality and to try to understand it. Creativity is a necessity, images are poems that I cannot write.
In 2007, my first documentary production, Amazonia Grillada, took me to the Brazilian Amazon to make a documentary on the expropriation of traditional populations. This seven-month experience in the field has profoundly affected my sensitivity to environmental and humanitarian issues.
Awards: Fondation de France / Paris Jeune Aventure
Exhibitions : Festival of Human Rights (Brussels) / Jules Vernes Festival / Grand Rex (Paris) / Festival de l'aventure (Paris)
In 2013, I photographed the ephemeral creations of street artists from all over the world in the legendary "Bains Douches" building in Paris.
Exhibitions : Magda Danysz gallery(Paris)
Book : "Les Bains / Résidence D'Artistes" published by Drago
In 2015, I began a long-term photographic work in partnership with the association "Little Brothers of the Poor" in order to highlight the precariousness among the elderly in France. Today, this work is being read by publishers.
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