| Studies has been elaborated for Le Mois de la Photo in Paris in 2002, and was presented in parallel of another series of seven pictures of Martin Margela’s clothes. The outfits were compressed between two pieces of glass and shot by transparency. The subject of that year was “fashion.” The aim of this story was to follow the process of fabrication of the cloth from the construction to the death. The second reading of Studies was to propose another type of beauty, showing that a voluptuous woman could be as sensual and erotic as the regular type of women seen in magazines. I decided to work the light, colors, and prints of those pictures in an aesthetic way to create iconic images. The fabrication process of the clothes was done directly on the shoot in collaboration with fashion designer Pascal Humbert. I shot with a Sinar four-by-five-inch camera to be precise in the composition of the images, and to work as a printer. |  |
Eric Traoré
Studies has been elaborated for Le Mois de la Photo in Paris in 2002, and was presented in parallel of another series of seven pictures of Martin Margela’s clothes. The outfits were compressed between two pieces of glass and shot by transparency. The subject of that year was “fashion.” The aim of this story was to follow the process of fabrication of the cloth from the construction to the death. The second reading of Studies was to propose another type of beauty, showing that a voluptuous woman could be as sensual and erotic as the regular type of women seen in magazines. I decided to work the light, colors, and prints of those pictures in an aesthetic way to create iconic images. The fabrication process of the clothes was done directly on the shoot in collaboration with fashion designer Pascal Humbert. I shot with a Sinar four-by-five-inch camera to be precise in the composition of the images, and to work as a printer. Most of my work is based on commissioned work since the beginning of my career. And it’s in the interpretation of a command that I express myself as an artist. Next step for me would be to work on a complete personal work, and give freedom to my obsessions. Feel free to present my work without having to care about what people think of it.
