Olivier Valsecchi | Dust

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Born in France in 1979.

He studied at ETPA Photography School, Toulouse, 2007.

Olivier produced music as a teenager, and became interested in

photography after taking photos to illustrate his record sleeves. He

spent 10 years simply producing self portraits for enjoyment and to

develop his process, before enrolling at photography school to really

hone his technique.

Olivier finds that his entire working process, from planning and

constructing a series, to the moment of capturing an image, is

based on his personal intuition. As if sprung from some unbridled

unconsciousness, the photographs evoke death, birth, maternity and

rebirth.

Awards: Winner: Hasselblad Masters 2012, Fine Art Category.

Grand Prix Photographie, 2009

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With “Dust”, Olivier explores the concept of the phoenix rising from

the ashes.

The series is about rebirth, inspired by the artist’s rebirth after wandering

from unrelated job to unrelated job for many years. Olivier originally

tried using a smoke machine to create this visual effect of the reborn

figure emerging into life, but in the end, actual ashes, from a chimney,

proved to be the most effective choice. The resulting three hours of

cleaning at the end of each shoot proved to be worth it, for the result

was a series of incredibly dynamic and rather beautiful figure portraits.

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T H E P R I N T S

The artworks are available in two sizes :

27” x 27” (70 x 70 cm) edition of 15

47” x 47” (120 x 120 cm) edition of 5

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