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“My training as an architect gave me a sharp eye for the city. I produced my first series on New York, which I really liked, so I kept the momentum going. Since then, I've done a lot of traveling around the world, discovering a lot of cities, and I like to seek out and highlight their specific characteristics.”
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Laurent Dequick is a professional architect in his forties. His photographic work has been influenced by architecture, since it is primarily focused on ideas surrounding the contemporary city and more specifically, urban sprawl. The photographer's message is to accurately convey the impression of freneticism stemming from population density and activity in urban zones: "As you walk down the street, the lights, noises, traffic, hustle and bustle, and mix of smells are so striking that no single shot could capture all of it. So do we have to make choices? I don't think so and I don't want to." To convey in images this “congestion” of urban life, Laurent Dequick does not hesitate to juxtapose, superimpose, or imbricate his shots. He fits together photographs representing architectural complexes, highways, and people, all with the same intensity. He condenses the images like the city condenses the sum of the lives of all of its inhabitants. His style is reminiscent of cubism in its rendering that verges on abstraction in its representation of constant motion.
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Mon exposition "Regards d'architecte" m'a fait redécouvrir Paris
References
Awards
Black & White Spider Awards
2019 - Eton, Royaume-Uni
Fine-Arts Photography Awards
2018
International Color Awards
2018
International Photography Awards
2017
Themes
ALL PHOTOGRAPHS
BROOKLYN BRIDGE NETTING
Laurent Dequick distances himself from classic representations of landscapes, offering an extremely poetic vision of them instead. Bearing witness to the contemporary city and informed by his previous experience as an architect, he lets himself get caught up in contemplating buildings. For the High series, begun in 2018, his creative process highlighted the delicacy of the edifices pictured. Coming close to engraving, they are transformed into veritable monuments, rising above common feelings and becoming sublime, pure, and essential. ... See more See less
