2011 SHORTLISTED PHOTOGRAPHERS

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Émile Hyperion DubuissonFrance / USA horaires

"My first experience of fashion photography. I like to get inside the very pores of its skin; they are like film grain. The light is full and harsh, direct and enveloping. White devours the image; the greys blossom. The decisive moment captured, the curves positioned, the poem is constructed. I am always interested in combining the simple and the subtle. The mysterious evidence of a rare alchemy. At a more basic level, my photographs embody the idea of bringing together in a single picture calmness and upheaval.

On a film set from the 1930s, lit by my ‘point and shoot’ 35 mm camera, Bryson, model and muse, is a character from The Great Gatsby. The photographs are printed on newsprint paper; the image may alter and even, after a certain time, disappear altogether."

Émile Hyperion Dubuisson (France, 1976) studied photography at the International Center of Photography (New York). He has exhibited at the New York Photo Festival (2009), and in 2008 was selected for the Descubrimientos (competition for young photographers), at the Photo España festival. He lives in New York.

www.emilehyperiondubuisson.com