Six simultaneous international photo exhibitions

Beginning June 9, Saint Laurent presents SELF 07: six photograph exhibitions which happen concurrently in Paris, London, Seoul, Tokyo, New York, and Shanghai. The exhibitions have been curated by clothier and Saint Laurent Inventive Director Anthony Vaccarello.

The photographers, who created unique artworks for the French home, embrace Harry Gruyaert, Olivia Arthur, Daesung Lee, Takashi Homma, Alex Webb, and the Birdhead collective. Every exhibition is free to the general public and will likely be staged outside. Right here, Doc provides an summary of the undertaking’s installations.

Harry Gruyaert; Paris, Palais Royal

Belgium native Gruyaert wished to seize the between-two-worlds sensation usually felt in airports. Gruyaert’s photographs, which prominently characteristic main colours, have been shot at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle.

“[Airports] are locations that focus every little thing that often catches my eye as a photographer: the interaction of sunshine, transparency and reflections, the consequences of superimpositions that create a lack of reference factors and provides this very robust impression of being between two worlds,” Gruyaert is quoted within the SELF 07 press launch. “After which, there are the indicators—arrows, numbers, letters—that mark out the body. I’ve all the time preferred the vocabulary of signage.”

Olivia Arthur; London, Commentary Level

London-based Arthur presents So not so, a collection of photographs that explores the human relationship with our our bodies and our physicality. Arthur endeavors to point out the best way we contact and join to one another.

“An exploration of the bodily world in pure and unnatural kinds are key for me in exhibiting the bounds of our physicality,” Arthur says. “Our digital worlds have grown to turn into a real actuality, and as know-how creeps, we have to remind ourselves of the arduous feeling of a hand on a wall or the clatter of pebbles falling over one another.”

Daesung Lee; Seoul, Namsan Seoul Tower 1F

After the 2020 lockdown, nature “revived and got here again to us,” Paris-based Lee says. He remembers bluer skies, greener leaves on timber, the sounds of birds singing loudly—all of which modified the best way he sees the world. However whereas he was caught inside, Lee had to make use of his thoughts to visualise nature.

“I usually needed to escape to an imaginary nature in my thoughts to face the unsure future,” Lee says. “It was a wierd spring. I tried to visualise that unusual expertise throughout lockdown. An imaginary nature, that you would be able to solely see in your inside self, that you would be able to solely really feel in your personal senses. All of us lived in our personal universe throughout that point.”

Takashi Homma; Tokyo, Miyashita Park

Utilizing the digital camera obscura ingredient, Homma sought to seize the affect of Tokyo’s surroundings on its clothes. His photographs seize each the power and elegance of the town.

“Our actions are the truth is constrained and guided by the stress of the town of Tokyo,” he says. “Town and trend are all the time in a one-to-one relationship.”

Alex Webb; New York Metropolis, Madison Sq. Park

When Webb was requested to {photograph} Los Angeles for SELF 07, three neighborhoods instantly got here to thoughts—the Piñata District, the Flower District, and the Style District. “[Their] deep shadows, brightly painted partitions, and vibrant streets are paying homage to Mexico, the place I’ve usually wandered,” Webb says.

The photographer is drawn to the depth of life and “sensible” colours, which he discovered throughout travels in Latin America and the Caribbean. His work, which captures totally different corners of Downtown LA, is dominated by wealthy colour and accented by shadows.

Birdhead; Shanghai, Digital

Birdhead’s exhibit goals to point out a “tangible connection between images,” and was impressed by the relationships between numerous species. The collective aligned the photographs in a fashion that displays a seamless integration of pure parts with the town, clothes, and the physique.

In accordance with Birdhead’s signature model, every of the works for SELF 07 is organized in a grid, primarily based on the format of photographic matrix. For this undertaking, Birdhead adopted inverted unfavorable photographic prints of their work for the primary time.