Anaglyphs
Series of stereoscopic images based on newspaper material.
Anaglyphs are shown as C-Prints, posters or wallpapers.

      For each photograph, a second picture is slowly built in order to recreate a binocular and stereoscopic vision of the scene. This second image, almost identical to the first one, shows the same scene from a slightly different angle, just as the second eye of the photographer saw it at the moment of the shooting. To do so, I need to show in the recreated image some parts of the scene that were hidden in the original view. It requires a work of imagination and extrapolation. The two images, when superimposed and seen through coloured lenses glasses, reveal a 3D reproduction of the scene. The technical process this project uses is called "anaglyph". It seems both archaic and futuristic. Indeed it dates from 1853.
      The 3D effect is the most obvious addition I made to the original images but one can also notice some more subtle modifications. The photographs I use were usually printed very small. They were not meant to last long because one quickly trow the newspaper they were printed on away. They were also linked to an article, a text that influenced and restricted their meaning. By transforming them into posters or wallpaper, big images one can live and develop some kind of familiarity with, my goal was to make them autonomous and thus to unlock their expressive potentialities.

     

 

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