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Romain Rousset, Geoffrey Cottenceau

Awarded

Romain Rousset / Geoffrey Cottenceau

Photo research 'Bernhardo, Montagnhard, Veronique, Veronique aussi'

Photography

Jury report

Fashion photography as theatrical presentation
These four pho­tographs look like shots of a play, a con­tem­po­rary pro­duc­tion or like mo­ments from a per­for­mance cap­tured in re­pose. In one pic­ture we see a masked man sit­ting on a horse made up of boxes and chairs and with a red fab­ric thrown over it. The rider is wear­ing a yel­low top with large green ap­pliqué areas, short trousers and dark green knee-length socks. The back­ground is grey-white. In a sec­ond pic­ture we see the masked rider on top of a lit­tle mound of blan­kets. We can even make out dif­fer­ently coloured flow­ers on the tex­tiles. The man is wear­ing read knicker­bock­ers, knee-length dark green socks again and a pink shirt with three white stripes, which like the trousers al­ludes to Ty­rolean na­tional cos­tume. The pic­tures do not pro­vide us with any other con­crete in­for­ma­tion. We can as­sume what their sub­ject mat­ter and pur­pose is, but not cat­e­go­rize them fully. And it is highly prob­a­ble that we would guess wrongly. The fact is that Ro­main Rous­set and Ge­of­frey Cot­tenceau are pre­sent­ing fash­ion by Bern­hard Wil­helm and Veronique Bran­quinho for the Ger­man fanzine 'Mode De­pesche' in these four im­ages. But these works have noth­ing to do with fa­mil­iar fash­ion pho­tog­ra­phy, with styled mod­els and glam­our. They are highly orig­i­nal com­po­si­tions, re­fus­ing to be de­fined or cat­e­go­rized. The set­ting is sim­ple, the ob­jects and ac­ces­sories used look fan­ci­ful as if put to­gether from per­sonal pos­ses­sions. In the two other pic­tures the head is com­pletely en­veloped in a great shape grow­ing out of the clothes and mak­ing the per­son dis­ap­pear ex­cept for the hands, which are hang­ing down. They im­i­tate the ef­fect of a mov­ing ob­ject, here the cloth­ing is 'flow­ing' to the right or up­wards.
Ar­i­ana Pradal

Biography

Romain Rousset
Born in
1978
Education
designer HES en communication visuelle

Web

www.gneborg.org

also in

2005

Geoffrey Cottenceau
Born in
1978
Education
designer HES en communication visuelle, spécialisation photographie

Web

www.gneborg.org

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