Le Docks
Elsa
Guillet-Chapuis
About this photograph :
Le Docks
Young photographer Elsa Guillet-Chapuis depicts New York city in this series. She radically moves away from traditional images of the flashy metropolis teeming with life. This series, strongly influenced by film esthetics, reveals a deserted setting. There is no sign of any human activity but daytime bustle still resonates. An iconography of suggestion is proposed by Elsa Guillet-Chapuis.
These images also conjure up American literature’s ‘Gotham City’. The photographs of the deserted streets resurrect nocturnal anxieties. The city holds its breath until sunrise. Gotham therefore becomes a metaphor for humanity’s existential anxieties. Yet, beyond the anxiety, these photographs are also about the promises brought by dawn. It is a perpetual cycle: night follows day and life reasserts itself.
About the artist :
Elsa
Guillet-Chapuis
Born in 1986, Elsa Guillet-Chapuis learnt the
rudiments of framing and lighting during heraudiovisual course. However, she
very quickly realised that fixed images interested her more than video. From
that moment, she gained entry into the photography department of the
prestigious Ecole Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière. In 2010 when Elsa
Guillet-Chapuis finished her course, she carried out photographic research based
on the late-night depiction of major cities throughout the world.
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