Stigmat

Digital photography

 

After a weekend of unrest in Paris, I photographed what the city carried on its surfaces: burnt metal, shattered glass and damaged layers of paint. Made with a phone, these images preserve the immediacy of the encounter. Tight framing draws the traces towards abstraction without erasing the violence that produced them. Across the blackened surfaces, light becomes texture, recalling the shifting blacks of Pierre Soulages’ outrenoir.