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Freak encounters, praise to melancholy !

Philippe Séon has been keeping company with the world of performing arts and video since 1996; he started to take a serious interest in photography in April 2013. Following in the footsteps of his grandfather, a GI who landed in Normandy with US forces almost seventy years ago, he was bewitched by the vision of a landscape covered with bunkers.

Philippe’s vision finds correspondences in literature, cinema and comic strips, all important elements of his inner world. These connections serve to create oneiric landscapes that evoke the fallen bastions of long-dead civilizations, or balancing cathedrals facing dark, sullen skies, or abandoned villages in lonely landscapes.

His photographic frames highlight the spectacular nature of these obsolete buildings that are doomed to soon disappear. Using play of light, image composition and shutter speed, Philippe Séon reconstructs this universe of his own. It highlights the poetry which emerges from the landscapes that become a "Praise to Melancholy". His photo retouching – a technique that originated in film editing - accentuates the hyperrealist aspect of the images.

The different levels of reading leave an open space for everyone to fantasize around his work as they may, or as they wish.