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Yann Laubscher
Prize winner 2015
“My photographs aim to create a narrative that reveals a group of people's journey through a territory that is both banal and hostile, as described in Chekhov's short stories. The story takes place somewhere, with no chronological or geographical reference points. With the idea of evoking the atmosphere of Andrei Tarkovski's film Stalker, through the inner search for a climate, a tension, and a poetic friction linked to a particular sensitivity to the reciprocal effects of interactions between man and nature, I combine portraits and landscapes revealing this collective experience in which I am both protagonist and observer. More than a documentary on wilderness, these images are the trace of an expedition, both the culmination of a way of thinking that rejects consumer society, and the fruit of an investigation in isolation of this inhospitable but threatened environment.
I document the traces of a precarious life, experienced during these expeditions, but I also try to draw up an uncompromising inventory of this endangered wilderness. I need the Russian territory to do this, even if it's not a work about Russia. Over there, we find ourselves in a kind of isolation, that of the wild world, even of forgotten regions; we therefore perceive a possible communion with nature”.
Born in Switzerland in 1986, Yann Laubscher lives and works in Lausanne. After a Master's degree in environmental natural sciences, he studied photography at the École supérieure d'arts appliqués de Vevey (CEPV). He wrote his dissertation on the links between exploration and photography. His documentary approach focuses on the complex relationships between humans and nature.