People nominee

In 2023, I initiated and produced a first photographic series, “Family Portraits.” This series is constructed as a mirror for observers. Here, the way we look at the photograph matters less than what it reflects back to us. Each photographic scene observes us and gives us an image of what we are deep down: beings locked in our certainties without real freedom and running towards decline, towards extinction. The animal side, this intimate part of what we are, but incapable of assuming it, certain of our superiority, is exposed in a laughable, ridiculous way. And yet this bestiary is, in my opinion, our ultimate lifeline.

BIOGRAPHY :
Patrick BOTTER is a committed artist, using photography as a means of expressing his feelings about a world heading towards disaster. Through his productions he attempts to question, alert, and make each of us intimately aware that we are inexorably going “straight into the wall”.
Appropriating the codes of theater and working in a photographic series, each of his productions is a staging. Each place, character, object is chosen and organized in order to establish the scene of his thoughts.
Exclusively "black and white" film photography, 24 x 36 reflex, Rolleiflex, and now the 4'' x 5'' camera
EXHIBITIONS :
Photobis Paris, France (2005),
Atelier Anne de Boccard : "ULTIME VANITÉ" Lyon, France (2023),
Arles : Rencontres de la photographie, exposition off, Galerie Space of Photography (2023).
AWARDS :
2024, Monovisions photo awards : honorable mention, (catégorie People),
2023, Monovisions photo awards honorable mention, (catégorie Fine Art),
2019, Certificat de mérite artistique Luxembourg art prize,
2018, Certificat de mérite artistique Luxembourg art prize,
2018, Concours photo OBJECTIF24 : 2ème prix de l’histoire en 4 images Salon de Provence, France.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS :
2024, Publication of my book "Portraits de famille" Corridor édition