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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 It rewards an unpublished work created by an artist, presented as a series or other coherent and comprehensive photographic set.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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Baptiste Tournebœuf
Special mention 2017
Next City
In this age of globalization, is there a global concept of utopian mass urbanism that addresses “universal” housing issues?
Could this be a reflection of a levelling out of the center, banishing ancestral principles and forgetting about the transmission of a traditional heritage?
Observation of similar and contemporary situations in different geographical, historical, social and cultural contexts begs the question.
We are on the outskirts of two megacities almost 4,000 km apart, Beijing and New Delhi. Yet these views of construction sites are disturbing for the similarity of the shapes of these vessels from nowhere, set in deserts of concrete, and for the similar perspectives that respond to the same codes. These future living spaces resemble and respond to each other. Are these places in the making the realization of the dream of the ideal, a symbol of the future, of success?
This photographic work is the fruit of meticulous observation of restless, changing landscapes. Far from being merely documentary, it is produced using a view camera, as part of an authorial approach. This positioning allows us to take the time to frame with meticulous precision, mastering the economy of the images to give them meaning, an aesthetic flavor and a technically accomplished rendering.
Next City invites us to reflect on human action beyond borders.
Habitat as a marker of cultural identity? Not really.
Born in 1966 in Paris.
Member of the Tendance Floue photography collective,
Patrick Tourneboeuf seeks to trace the human presence in places that are a priori deprived of it. In the mid-1990s, he turned his attention to urban space with the “Périphérique” series, a silent vision of the Parisian boulevard. “Nulle part” explores seaside resorts on European coasts, free of summer visitors. Since 2003, he has devoted part of his work to capturing the stigmata of history: the traces of the Berlin Wall, the beaches of the D-Day Landings and the war memorials of the Great War. His work on heritage sites is collected in a book entitled Monumental.