P H I L  A R T E Z    

Fine Art Photography

 

I was born in I965 in Africa (Tanganyka),at the age of 12 I went to France then I traveled to many countries such as:Western Europe,Middle East,India,China,Japan,North America,North Africa (Sahara Desert).I began photography 20 years ago after a trip by train across the Soviet Union.All of these travels gave me a feeling of the exile.My real home,I guess,is where I can work now.I like photography for the miracles it performs each day by accident.I put my life in my work and my work into it.

It is like a long journey and a mirror of myself where I can be always on the move.I will try to explain more with some keywords:"Time,space,lights,body,masks,stage,sounds,movement,darkness,visions,nomads,respiration,instinct,instant, transformation,repetition,energy,show,ritual,interpretation,silence,disappear."

Now most of my influences come from music and dance.

I like what Orson welles said about photography:"It's a medium via which messages reach us from another world ".

In french:Image=Magie

I believe also that the camera is much more than a recording apparatus.

About technics:Mine is very simple:I use always the same black and white film and I enlarge myself all the prints because I think it's an essential part of the creative process.I have my own studio and darkroom.

When I am in the darkroom I like to hear the sounds I recorded everywhere I have been before this trip to Russia where i decided also to take photographs.

About my statement : I waited 20 years to present my photography work....and Internet is such an amazing possibility to show it....A free media wich can be seen everywhere.....!!!

 

E-Mail:   Phil Artez

The association "Visions Nomades" just realised a website at the end of last january 2002 to present my work:http://www.artezphotovisions.com