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Denis Darzacq
Nov 26, 2007 at 02:19
No the people who seem to be seconds before eating shit in these images are not superimposed onto these French urban backdrops. They are actually about to eat shit. These photos are from a series taken by French photographer Denis Darzacq in and around the housing estates in the outskirts of Paris. For Darzacq, the series entitle La Chute (The Fall) was partly inspired by the terrifying imagery of people falling from the twin towers and partly an expression of his disappointment in the self obsessed nature of his fellow country men and how to him France is the kind of place where someone could tumble from the sky on to the pavement and no one walking by would bat an eyelid.
Darzacq asked his subjects (who were mostly local breakdancers) to hit the concrete over and over again for sessions of up to 2 hours while he photographed them mid flight.
François Gautret, 27, who runs a hip-hop collective in northern Paris, was one of Darzacq's subjects. "I wanted to capture the sense of the split second before hitting the ground," he says. "It was cold, the concrete was very hard, in one picture you can even see my sleeves pulled down over my knuckles so I didn't wreck my hands when I landed. I totally got his idea of a society in which youth is ignored, feared and left to crash. Even now, during the elections, everyone's still using Nicolas Sarkozy's line that every young person on an estate is racaille [rabble], that all anyone does is burn cars."
Check some samples to the right of this post. ---->
for more info visit Denis' website
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oh.... painful...
Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:52:28 PM
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I've heard of no pain no gain but some of those shots are truely cringeworthy... ouch
Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:56:22 PM
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oh the French. Being in Paris during last year's presidential election showed me just how strongly black and white (Sarkozy/Sigolene) their politics are. Anyhow these photos are stunning.
Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:56:00 PM
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