About the Artist
"Essentially, reality is like a starting point.
My work, though, is subjective. I have a personal vision: what I
imagine before I shoot. Good images do not come easily, they must be
pursued, hunted down, and caught before it’s too late. Before taking
a photograph I must feel that something is there, that it has been
given to me to seize and that I really must have it. That is why I
am fascinated with the night, because there is nothing there but
essence: dark and light. Then I can take those images and rework
them on computers until I am satisfied that my vision has been
achieved. Architecture, Landscape, Illustration, Nature, People,
Fine-art. Photography works with medium format, 35 mm and digital,
using computers as digital laboratory and graphic design."
"For ten years I did many night photographs in
downtown Paris. At first, it was my artistic choice to use black and
white film, sometimes pushed to ISO 1600. That probably was due to
the fact that I liked and had studied the cinema and thus tried to
use these techniques in photography. One of my self-assigned
projects was to try to capture the essence of a train station when
it was nearly deserted at night. In fact I am an artist who uses
photography to express himself. What interests me about photography
is that I can transform reality, that is, I can start with reality
but change it or interpret it as I see it in my mind. For many years
my works has been represented by both European and United States
agencies. A brief list of published images are Digital Camera
Magazine, Attic Magazine, Le Photographe, Publications Creation
Magazine, la Banque de l’Image, Photographers of the end of
millennium, Fotonoviembre 2003."
Guy Jean Genevier |
