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Created in 2012, Camera Clara Photo Award is dedicated to photographers using large format camera. It rewards an unpublished work created by an artist, presented as a series or other coherent and comprehensive photographic set. The work will be assessed on its coherence, as a form as well as a content.
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Arno Brignon
Mention spéciale 2019
It's a place where history and geography remain uncertain, a place where dogs run free in the streets after cars, a place where mountains and hills are an incessant echo of ocean waves, a place of bygone growth, since fallen to the battlefield of the holy economic war, a place where large housing estates are destroyed, replaced by small homes, a place where hospitals and schools become museums offered to the passing tourist. This place doesn't need a name, because it's so similar to the others in its loss. The loss of its inhabitants, of a particular identity, and above all of social ties. The disappearance is in place, man becomes a separate being and the land a uniform space. The past is frozen in place so that the rest of the world can move ever faster towards this uncertain future.
“I'm in a place I didn't choose. Photography is my excuse for this journey, silver a medium for confronting otherness, a means of resistance to this global acceleration. This is the location of my year-long residency, from Aussillon to Lectoure, from Valparaiso to Condom. I photographed these four towns, symbolic of this memory on borrowed time, where those who built the places and lived in them, sometimes for generations, are forced to leave; the reasons are multiple, but the reason is almost always economic. Turning to a past too often perceived as more flamboyant than their present, I ask those who remain about an identity and a way of living together that are increasingly under attack”.