{"id":80,"date":"2014-10-06T20:33:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T18:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mvgphoto.com\/?p=80"},"modified":"2024-10-10T11:36:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T09:36:40","slug":"eye-on-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mvgphoto.com\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"Eye on Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Baka boy, 2009, Lambda print, 110 x 48 cm, \u00c9dition : 1\/5 <\/p>

\u201cThe boy on the trunk is a pygmee from the Baka tribe. Because of industrial logging, his future in the equatorial forest is bleak. To explain my work, I often use the word \u201cencounter\u201d. I want to confront people who would never normally meet. For these encounters to take place, I try to photography people in \u201creal\u201d situations. I then transfer the images in the viewer\u2019s environment, thus the panoramic format. The viewer can then delve directly into the event, and feels he is himself within the picture frame.<\/p>

These 32 panoramic images, made over two one-month stays in Cameroon, were printed on publicity boards in five Swiss cities. It is my goal and my hope that the viewer will let himself plunge in the image and, maybe, reduce the distance and fear between the African and himself. Eye on Africa wants to show the diversiy and beauty of an African country, far from the poverty and violence usually associated with the African continent.\u201d<\/p>

„Photography is the perfect excuse to enter the dream, this world where we do not belong.“\nAlbertine Bourget, January 2009 – in the book eye on africa<\/p><\/blockquote>

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Coucher de soleil sur l\u2019oc\u00e9an Ekribi, la riviera du Cameroun, 2009, ink jet print, 125 x 284 cm, \u00c9dition : 1\/3<\/p>

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Wum, 2008, Lambda print, 125 x 284 cm, \u00c9dition : 1\/3 <\/p>

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Baka boy, 2009, Lambda print, 110 x 48 cm, \u00c9dition : 1\/5 \u201cThe boy on the trunk is a pygmee from the Baka tribe. Because of industrial logging, his future in the equatorial forest is bleak. To explain my work, I often use the word \u201cencounter\u201d. I want to confront […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3,12],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-works","tag-featured","tag-hp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mvgphoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mvgphoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mvgphoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mvgphoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mvgphoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.mvgphoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1980,"href":"https:\/\/www.mvgphoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/1980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mvgphoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mvgphoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mvgphoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mvgphoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}