Mention honorable dans la catégorie « Architecture »

Victor Shklovski, the eminent Russian literary theorist, considered that everyday life caused the freshness of our perception of objects to be lost, ultimately making everything automatic. To avoid this, he proposes the technique of estrangement, which consists in creating complicated shapes, in making objects strange, in increasing the difficulty and extension of the process of perception.

Using this method, photos taking from a vertical point of view, I try to capture the viewer's attention, in order to make him intrigued by what he is seeing, question his point of view in relation to the shot and consider the reality of the photographed.

Certainly in its highest expression, the city is beautiful although artificial, but by adopting an alternative point of view, the city is transmuted into a series of impresives landscapes. Everything is false but a falsehood that raises questions in the viewer. Is what you see reality? Or it's appearance. The ultimate goal of the different shots on display is to force the viewer to reflect on the limits of the reality that surrounds us.