Art photographs

Series of photographs with immersive scenography, images and portraits where humans remain the center of gravity in noisy and dizzying street conditions.

It was necessary, attentive in this urban hubbub, to photograph the attitude, to catch the subject in his moment before he in turn captured me. Sometimes, all it takes is a look, a tacit agreement, a positive vibration for the Other to grant me in an image the very essence of their soul. In this moment photographing becomes a visual thought, I am allowed to see what others do not see. Despite the state of poverty, dirt, and harsh outlook, from these portraits emerges a form of dignity and almost mystical resignation. No one smiles, no one is sad, the culture is above all an India in survival where beyond their mystical philosophy, the principle of reality allows little emotion to pass through. Everywhere the air coagulates in this state of dereliction, of a crowd agglutinated and united in a Whole.

This first series of photographs details the Indian social landscape, itself absorbed by notions of cultural identity and living in community. The photo is post-processed in contrast in order to give a hyper-texture to the details, an impression of materials almost palpable through the image. Practice of a photo-GRAPHIC visual art sometimes bordering on drawing. Frame the street, read these faces... The image suspended or deposited somewhere, in a humanitarian reading, or as a simple reminder of the symbolic order of what we are to each other, expressly linked and attached to the survival of humanity.

Julia Badereddine

Documentary and humanist photographer