R Magazine, Ex-TeenArt_Issue 1_Authenticity Mar. 2015 | Page 75

_____ WORK _____

This self portrait photographer plays with

the viewer’s perception. His work is very
personal and recognizable at first glance.
Aesthetically, he is inspired by the painters of
the Italian pre-Renaissance. He is passionate
about the human being, representation
and self-expression. His characters have a
piercing look, cold and distant. Their skin
is perfect and very pale as porcelain. Are
they human? Are they monsters? The viewer
oscillates between a feeling of beauty and
ugliness, of attractive and repulsive, alive
or dead. He manipulates the audience as he
manipulates his images. The message of his
art is precisely on that border. It is strange
and it attracts.

OLEG DOU//PHOTO

writing : Laura Bonnieu
translation : Marie Agathe Ndiaye