Nicolas Genette
pro member
What could be more conductive to a trip than a blank page ? Sure it can be anxious, meaning lack of inspiration. It can be the starting point of deep reflection, the formalization of impressions, feelings. A pilgrimage in the unconscious. It forces us to question, to move forward, to write a path.
Never been yourself in a full white, empty room ? Scary ? No, on the contrary, a real space of freedom, where everything is to be done, drawn, thinkable. The definition of future to write. We must go forward, because this page can’t remain white, the failure shall be there. But how forward, towards where ? Why ? Here is an interesting exercise. And how a photographer could answer it ? Without pencil, without brush ?
I had to go along with such exercise. With only a body, a lens, and light … and a few sheets of paper ! seemingly nothing more simple, and as I like clean and simple work … But simplicity isn’t so simple ! Especially since I really wanted to do something as such , without drawing or writing on, without darkening them, not to refer to their support function. A sort of hymn of the blank page !
Locked in the studio several days to bend , fold , turn , light , frame … Why ? Playing with sheets of paper ? In a sense, to end with these blank pages, fixed in the likeness, in the purity, virginity. But open to the difference in the feel and imagination. Playing with light, drawing these volumes, these shadows, these forms, these ways. Finally, it would seem that we can do a lot from nothing… And that’s where the interesting things begin …
http://www.nicolasgenette.com/blog/pages-blanches/
http://www.nicolasgenette.com/photos/Fovea.php
Enjoy!
Nicolas
Never been yourself in a full white, empty room ? Scary ? No, on the contrary, a real space of freedom, where everything is to be done, drawn, thinkable. The definition of future to write. We must go forward, because this page can’t remain white, the failure shall be there. But how forward, towards where ? Why ? Here is an interesting exercise. And how a photographer could answer it ? Without pencil, without brush ?
I had to go along with such exercise. With only a body, a lens, and light … and a few sheets of paper ! seemingly nothing more simple, and as I like clean and simple work … But simplicity isn’t so simple ! Especially since I really wanted to do something as such , without drawing or writing on, without darkening them, not to refer to their support function. A sort of hymn of the blank page !
Locked in the studio several days to bend , fold , turn , light , frame … Why ? Playing with sheets of paper ? In a sense, to end with these blank pages, fixed in the likeness, in the purity, virginity. But open to the difference in the feel and imagination. Playing with light, drawing these volumes, these shadows, these forms, these ways. Finally, it would seem that we can do a lot from nothing… And that’s where the interesting things begin …
http://www.nicolasgenette.com/blog/pages-blanches/
http://www.nicolasgenette.com/photos/Fovea.php
Enjoy!
Nicolas