This is the story of several journeys that have fed a love story. Several trips in which Thomas Gizolme and Aline Diépois, who live and work together in Paris, participated. Both art directors and photographers, they share their time between advertising and editorial commissions and personal projects.
Aline and Thomas started by working together. This was their first journey, the journey towards the other. And then they live their story fully on a daily basis while continuing to work together, this is their second journey, the journey towards cohabitation. Thomas then taught Aline photography, their third journey, the one towards the work of the other. And finally, they both went on a trip to the American countryside with a Bob Dylan song in mind. They went to take pictures together, the fourth trip, the one to them. And it is this road-trip in the American West that they offer us through their photos and their small texts in “Dust Book”.
Armed with a master linhof room and a Polaroid 600 in their pockets, they drive with the number of an unknown man, a former bookseller exiled in the middle of nowhere, who is supposed to provide them with a drop-off point and wandering angles where they can wander. But by way of address, a kind of track game is offered to them during which they choose to give a meaning to the word instantaneous: an immediate result without retouching almost without control.
During their journey, signs planted on roadsides and embankments reminded them like a lithia: “Dust storm may exist”.
And yes, this dust can be seen everywhere on their memories, one could even touch it so much it impregnates each of its snapshots. And we imagine ourselves on the road with them in their car, observing these pictures and reading the little snapshots scattered throughout their book. Looking at his photos, one can imagine being in this part of deep America almost out of time sometimes. We can imagine ourselves dusting our shoulder.
Go and see these little pieces of their journey, of their story that they offer us at the Acte2 Gallery until January 8th 2010.
EXHIBITION “DUST STORM MAY EXIST
Act2 Gallery
41 rue d’Artois 75008 Paris
Monday to Friday from 10:00 to 13:00 and from 15:00 to 19:00
Saturday from 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Closed on Sundays and holidays.
Marie-Odile Radom
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