Readers picks #279

10 March 2020   •  
Written by Lou Tsatsas
Readers picks #279

Hugo Henry and Maud Levavasseur, our readers picks #279, question the notion of freedom. The former finds it in travels, while the latter represents it through nudity.

Hugo Henry

“Photography is the tool that makes me go on, it pushes me past my boundaries. It is not limited to mere travel restitutions, it questions my whole relation with my surroundings. It challenges the impact landscapes can have on me, and other people”,

Hugo Henry tells us. This young artist from Lorraine and based in Paris has developed a passion for excursions when he was a teenager, as he read Jack London, Jack Kerouac, Sylvain Tesson and Nicolas Bouvier’s books. After graduating from a bachelor’s degree in cinema and a masters degree in photography and contemporary art, he now produces “moving series” – results of his many trips. Naphte, Ressac, Brûlure, Hâtif, Fragments… My series’ titles are influenced by texts, words and poetry. I invite the viewer to contemplate a different form of narration – the more I progress in my research, the more my documentary side is fading away”, he says. In Hugo Henry’s creations, mankind remains almost invisible. In their stead, rises wilderness – strong and romantic. Foreign lands, reminiscent – to the photographer – of freedom and introspection.

© Hugo Henry© Hugo Henry

© Hugo Henry

© Hugo Henry© Hugo Henry

© Hugo Henry

Maud Levavasseur

25-year-old photographer Maud Levavasseur studied in and graduated from the Gobelins in 2018. Years of learning that trained her gaze and sensitivity, enabling her to capture her favourite theme with kindness: women. “I’ve developed a fascination for the body several years ago, when I was diagnosed with a back malformation. As I was trying to come to terms with it, I turned to selt-portraiture, I then decided I wanted to give other women the possibility to love themselves as well”, she tells us. Working with nudity, the artist wants to highlight feminine curves without sexualising them. With each model, she spends time talking. “Hearing their voices brings consistency to my work, I want to build an authentic relation with them”, she says. By capturing Salomé in nature, Maud Levavasseur built a sweet and liberated series. “Nudity must be desacralised. My series express a need to diversify this ‘landscape’, and broaden the sample of bodies represented”, the photographer concludes.

© Maud Levavasseur© Maud Levavasseur

© Maud Levavasseur

© Maud Levavasseur© Maud Levavasseur

© Maud Levavasseur

Cover picture: © Maud Levavasseur

Explore
Readers picks #354
Readers picks #354
Bastien Brillard and Élise Toïdé, our readers picks #354, express what they feel through their pictures. One adresses a passionate love...
23 August 2021   •  
Written by Lou Tsatsas
Your favourite monthly discoveries of July 2021
Your favourite monthly discoveries of July 2021
Here’s a focus on five of the readers’ favourite discoveries, presented in July 2021 on Fisheye’s website: Mélanie Patris, SMITH...
02 August 2021   •  
Written by Anaïs Viand
Muse, military jacket and disposable cameras: Lucie Hodiesne Darras’s Chinese portrait
Muse, military jacket and disposable cameras: Lucie Hodiesne Darras’s Chinese portrait
“I try, through my pictures, to highlight what a person is about. To elevate people and the atmosphere that surrounds them”, Lucie...
15 July 2021   •  
Written by Finley Cutts
Your favourite monthly discoveries of June 2021
Your favourite monthly discoveries of June 2021
Here's a focus on five of the readers' favourite discoveries, presented in June 2021 on Fisheye’s website: La Fille Renne, Cecilia Sordi...
12 July 2021   •  
Written by Anaïs Viand
Our latest articles
View all articles
Readers picks #355
Readers picks #355
Alexander Kaller and Stephen Sillifant, our readers picks #355, both escape the frenzy of our world to produce peaceful images – a...
30 August 2021   •  
Written by Fisheye Magazine
British seaside, round animals and Céline Sciamma: Max Miechowski's Chinese portrait
British seaside, round animals and Céline Sciamma: Max Miechowski’s Chinese portrait
Trained as a musician, British artist Max Miechowski turned to photography after a long trip to Southeast Asia. Portraits...
25 August 2021   •  
Written by Lou Tsatsas
Instagram selection #312
Instagram selection #312
Through portraits or landscapes, the artists of our Instagram selection #312 never stop experimenting. All of them seek new textures and...
24 August 2021   •  
Written by Joachim Delestrade
The labourer who turned mud into silver
The labourer who turned mud into silver
With Zilverbeek (Silver creek), Lucas Leffler explores the myth of a worker who made his wealth from the mud that lined the bottom of a...
23 August 2021   •  
Written by Finley Cutts