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Lignes de champ

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Léon photographies (Saint-Priest-des-Champs, France) on 17 March 2017 in Landscape & Rural and Portfolio.

Carmagnola - Along the road (Piemonte), Italy

Le monde moderne s’étalait à l’horizon, linéaire et strict, percutant de plein fouet le doux quotidien auquel nous nous étions habitués dans nos routines slaves. Pas une haie, pas un arbre ne venait perturber la monotonie de ces champs maintenus artificiellement en vie. Dans ce désert occidental, là où les lignes semblaient être dessinées par les mains d’un automate, la vie fuyait, s’évaporant loin derrière le rideau naturel que les Alpes formaient.

The modern world was spreading at the horizon, linear and strict, colliding with the head on the sweet life to which we finally got used to in our Slav routines. Not a single hedge, not a single tree was perturbating the monotony of these fields kept artificially alive. In this Western desert, where lines seemed to be drawn by the hands of an automaton, life was escaping, evaporating far behind the natural curtain that the Alps were forming.

From inside cultures, people and countries, Léon wants to reflect the world as it is. With and without lines, Léon tries not to lie about what he sees and lets know what people express, and what landscapes tell. Photographic work processed with films (Ilford HP5, XP2, FP4, Pan 100 & Pan 50, Portra 800, 400 & 160, Velvia 100 & 50, Sensia 100, Ektar 100, APX 100, Fomapan 200, Tri-X 400, Rolleï 400, BW400CN & Superia 400) by Nikkormat FS, 1968 & Praktica MTL5, 1984.