2009/10/24
When you run out of apples, the rhinos lose interest
The San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park near Escondido, California; January 2009
Sur un petit air de Gênes (refrain)
Sur un petit air de Gênes (refrain), originally uploaded by Alalettre (like the fool on the hill !).
Une petite dernière, pour la route. La promenade s'achève ici. Un coup de fil, un rendez-vous espéré en bord de mer, plus au sud. Les secondes reprennent l'épaisseur des minutes. Vite, une dernière respiration des petits airs nonchalants du cœur de la Superbe ! Et qui n'a pas que l'air d'avoir du cœur, qui en a la chanson…
Gênes, ce n'était donc que ça, mais tout ça, un petit matin d'octobre entre 8 et 9, après les insomnies, lorsque parfois comme par miracle, le temps prend la pause pour se laisser photographier.
La ville continue…
PH
Dancing with abandoned
I do not know the story of this ship, but I can see it was abandoned for some reason, and now there is at least one family inhabiting it. It is located midst of a very busy touristic beach (that is in summer time). Durres, Albania, October 2009
Pripiat / Slavutych
Pripiat / Slavutych
http://www.smague.fr
Part of Chernobyl and Schools
Pripiat
A city of 48000 until April 1986.
This is where the workers of the nuclear plant used to live.
It is now a ghost town.
Slavutych
A city of 22000 habitants, 8000 of whom are less than 18 years of age.
Located 30 miles east of the nuclear plant, this city was built a year after the catastrophe.
The workers take a train from here to go on the site of the nuclear plant, that still requires maintenance. Few of them lived in Pripiat...
Working on diptychs allowed me to draw a parallel between these two cities, to find the "live" counterpart of things I first found abandoned.
I did try to play the first prelude of the Well Tempered Clavier by Johann Sebastian Bach on that piano in Pripiat, my hands fitted in latex gloves. All that dilapidated shell of a piano gave me was a pathetic little note. A few days later I came to meet the assistant director of the music school in Slavutych. And as I told her about my attempt to play on that piano in Pripiat, she said : "please drop it. I taught and played on that piano. I could never return. It would be too painful."
Cable Support Day (Philadelphia)
This photo was part of my portfolio featured in LensWork magazine #78
Sophie
Some experimentations on woman nude… creative comments/advices welcome !
Some experimentations on woman nude… creative comments/advices welcome !
Aspen Trees in Jackson, Wy
Aspen Trees in Jackson, Wy
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