France

Guillaume Amat

 

Born in 1980, based in Paris.  He is dedicated to long-term projects which produce photographic narratives. Aiming to adapt the camera to the subject and the way in which to narrate a story by using different types of cameras, formats and sensible surfaces. With his images he build stories which navigate between documentary and poetry. In 2007 he joined Millennium Images Ltd (UK) and in 2008 Signatures-photographies agency (FR).

In April 2007, in a muffled silence, the sea disappeared, as if vanished, leaving behind only ghosts of stone. These Blockhaus, remains of World War II, slowly digested by the tides turned out to be threatening places of refuge in the middle of an unexplored desert. A haunting wind is sweeping along the coast and wrapping distant figures. In the open sea, one could hear the muffled sound of a foghorn very much like the whispering rumbling of life. People seem to get lost in a scenery both quiet and threatening where one gets stifled by the immensity of the landscape.
The project called « Nébuleuse » (Nebula) is part of a reflection on the question of World War II heritage, the French coast and its conservation. In the form of a photographic proposition, I tried to show how the hand of man and the hand of Nature can mix or be in conflict.

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