[존경하는 사람들] Christian Chaize 크리스티앙 셰즈의 해변

"'The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.' - Marcel Proust

새로운 눈을 갖기 위한 방법으로 여행을 떠나는 분들이 많으실꺼에요.

그 중에서도 여름하면 해변에서의 휴가가 가장 먼저 떠오르는데요~

오늘은 해변사진을 찍는 사진작가 크리스티앙 셰즈의 작품을 가지고 왔습니다.

크리스티앙 셰즈는 프랑스의 사진작가로 해변사진을 주로 찍습니다.

사진을 보시면 아시겠지만 언제나 언덕 위에서 아래를 바라보는 각도로 사진을 찍는데요.

탁 트인 해변사진을 보면서 올해 가지 못했던 여름 바캉스의  한을 푸는 느낌입니다.^^

포루투갈어로 '작은 해변'을 뜻하는 단어를 소리나는대로 옮겨 적은 Prais Piquinia Series가 바로 크리스티앙 셰즈의 개인 작업의 이름이 되었는데요. 지금까지의 해변사진과 다른 느낌을 여러분들도 경험해보시길 바랍니다.

Christian Chaize, a self-taught French artist, lives and works in Lyon, France.

Five years ago, Portugal did present itself as a new landscape in my life - both literally and metaphorically. Since then, I have photographed exclusively along a very small stretch of its southern coastline. Returning to this specific place, I've sought out its nuances. In doing so, I have peeled back layers of how I see, and how I experience this magical environment. 

The results of my slight obsession have evolved into two distinct series. Here are two images from Praia Piquinia, a body of work focusing on a singular, secluded beach front in which all of the pictures are taken from essentially the same elevated angle. What the still life was for Morandi, this beach is for me. From a distance, I observe the variables: light, weather, time of day, the ebb and flow of the ocean, and the sunbathers, unaware, below my large format camera. The images are shot vertically, a departure from the traditional, horizontal format in landscape photography. It puts my subject matter in the form of a portrait - an ongoing record of this ethereal yet playful nook in nature over the minutes, the days, the years. Ultimately, I try to instill an element of time within these captured moments... visceral time, elastic from one image to another. And always, I seek to have new eyes." -Christian Chaize

Discovered Christian Chaize's Praia Piquina series today - please take a look as the photographs are gorgeous! I'm putting the 30x40" version on my half-birthday list...(July 10, for all those keeping track).