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URBAN SPRAWL-EMPTINESS (Series)
DESCRIPTION
What inspires me is the emptiness in the urban landscape or in the great American spaces. I like to play/'mix' two approaches: The codes of the new topographics and the concept of "in between-two states" inspired by the anthropologist Marc Auge under the name of non-places. I like transitional places, like intersections or passages from one world to another, such as from a residential area to an industrial area. I also like the tourist places altered by the human trace. We often find this feeling of emptiness, of visual paradox by travelling throughout the United States. The transition from one site to the next: You have arrived and at the same time you have never left. I believe that the expansion of the urban or industrial landscape in the American natural landscape has redefined this space and has become itself a "non-place."
AUTHOR
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
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
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