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The Others
Olivier Culmann
Delhi Photo Festival
New Delhi, India
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- Title: The Others
- Creator: Olivier Culmann
- Date: 2015
- Photographer: Olivier Culmann
- About the series: Living in New Delhi from 2009 to 2012, Olivier Culmann embarked on a daily observation of Indian characters. Then, he carefully copied their appearance on himself. Showing the variety of components building individual identity (religion, caste, social class, occupation, regional origin...), these self-portraits were used as primary material for the entire project. Then Culmann subsequently transformed them by using the various techniques of iconography commonly used in India: ranging from the neighborhood photo studio, to digital lab alterations with Photoshop-like softwares and portraits painted over photographs. In this project, Culmann explores the limits of photography by questioning the construction of social status through practices of self-representation.
- About the Photographer: Social conditioning and free will are intrinsic to Olivier Culmann’s work. Located somewhere between the absurd and the derisory, his work puts the question of our everyday lives and our relationship with images under a microscope. He always comes back to his obsessions – and ours – winning us over with his sense of humour and his talent for narrative. 1993–1999: Les Mondes de l’école project (awarded the Villa Médicis Hors Les Murs in 1997) 2001: Les Mondes de l’école, published by Editions Marval, Une vie de poulet, published by Editions Filigranes 2008: 3rd World Press Photo prize for Watching TV 2011: Watching TV, published by Editions Textuel 2015: The Others series at the Museum Nicéphore Niépce in France, The Others, published by Editions Xavier Barral
- #DPF2015: 2015
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