THE WINNERS OF THE 8th RDV•I - January 2018
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Art Director: Paolo WOODS
Alexandre GOUZOU
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1st PHOTO AWARD
1st Photo Award - RDV•I 2018
Alexandre GOUZOU
Paris / France
gouzoumax@yahoo.fr
Once I had a life
This project started out as a desire, a desire named America. Last April,
having left for the west of the USA, I let my instincts guide me, giving free
rein to my inclination to roam. What I saw - the boarded-up little towns,
deserted regions, urban areas subjected to de-industrialisation – not only made
America seem abandoned, but secluded in the past. I have attempted to reproduce
the American sentiment about their damaged country. The people I met often
thought that their new president was going to rebuild the factories, breathing
life back into the economy. Rather than judge, I preferred to listen.
Mario CUCCHI
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2nd PHOTO AWARD
2nd Photo Award - RDV•I 2018
Mairo CUCCHI
mariocucchi@mariocucchi.it
www.mariocucchi.it
Six thoughts on the same thing
Archive of my vision on everyday objects 40 common objects, photographed
in six different poses, a total of 240 images cataloged in an old file. A
photographic project which explores the aesthetics of everyday life to reinvent
it, starting from the simplest things around us.
Younes KHANI SOMEEH SOFLAEI
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3rd PHOTO AWARD
3rd Photo Award - RDV•I 2018
Younes KHANI SOMEEH SOFLAEI
Téhéran / Iran
Presented by mojtaba.abdoulrahimkhan@gmail.com
Angels burned
Somayeh Mehry (30) and Rana Afghanipour (4) are mother and daughter living in a village called Hemet Abad located in Bam, a city in the south of Iran. They were attacked with acid by Somayeh’s husband Amir. Samayeh is of ten times being beaten up by her husband and imprisoned in a room. Finally, samayeh asked her husband or a divorce because of her husband's violent behavior. Amir, somayeh's husband threatened his wife in case that she files for divorce, he would ruin her life, destroy her life and stop her from stepping outside her house ever again. One night in June 2011, he poured acid on Somayeh and Rana as they slept. Somayeh’s and Rana’s faces, hands, and, in places, their bodies were severely burned. Somayeh was blinded, and Rana lost one of her eyes. somayeh and her two daughters Rana, 4 years of age and Nazanin, 7 years of age have been living in her father's house since the acide throwing incident. Somayeh's father, in order to provide the medical expenses of his daughter so.
Thibaut DERIEN
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PROFESSIONALS AWARD
Professionals Award - RDV•I 2018
Thibaut DERIEN
Houdan / France
tderien@gmail.com
www.derien.fr
I live in a ghost town
Thibaut Derien has traveled all over France, avoiding the main roads, in search of small abandoned but still standing businesses, witnesses of an era, a trade, a fashion, which inspired him this ghost town, which observes impotently the activity of impersonal shopping centers, there, far away. Not so far, in fact. In this cemetery of shops, the curtains are lowered, drawn, the doors sealed, the windows walled. The storefronts choke in a strict, square frame, which eclipses everything else. This frontality reduces the shops to their only facade and reduces to silence what made the particularity of these local shops: the social bond.
Alban DETOURNAY
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SPECIAL AWARD
Special Award - RDV•I 2018
Alban DETOURNAY
Strasbourg / France
albandetournay@gmail.com
www.facebook.com/Alban-Detournay-Urban-Photography
From the silent rooms
Belgium 2013. It's been four
years since I began to take an interest in the photography of abandoned places.
This practice, which tends to become popular in recent years, for the better or
the worse, is called Urban Exploration. It quickly became a passion. It pushed
me to improve my photographic skills and allowed me to visit many wastelands in
Europe. Whether castles, houses, mansions, factories, hospitals, these places
provide an atmosphere between life and death, where time seems to have stopped
and the traces of a lively past is caught up by his ephemerality. It is not
uncommon to find beautiful remains such as musical instruments that I present
in this series and that relive momentarily through our camera.
Thomas CYTRYNOWICZ
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1st YOUTH AWARD
1st Youth Award - RDV•I 2018
Thomas CYTRYNOWICZ
Schiltigheim / France
thomas.cytrynowicz@gmail.com
www.thomascytrynowicz.com
A Dance of Life and Death
Ceremonials reflect the essence of who we are, as humans. Birth, weddings, religious celebrations, death. At all these moments, human emotions and relations are at their paroxysm. There is nothing stronger than the joy of a baby born, or the grief caused by the loss of a loved one. The latter is also an extremely difficult emotion to document through photography. How to approach someone in emotional pain and capture her ? Is it possible to photograph without stealing an emotion? This project is an exploration of the particular ceremonial of death in Ghana. Before retrieving the dead from the mortuary, People chant and dance, weep and scream, all at once, while behind the doors, the embalmer is preparing the body. All human emotions at once, in honor of one man. A peculiar dance of life and death.
Anathème Photographies
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YOUNG PUBLIC AWARD
Young Public Award - RDV•I 2018
The young visitors of the exhibition - from 6 to 12 years - voted for the work of...
Anathème Photographies
Remelfrang / France
emilie_masson@hotmail.fr
Mon confident Bourriquet
I am a “Mom” photographer passionate about the childhood's universe and
child photography. I would love to give life through images to the complicity
which exists between a child and his comforter. It helps to give life to this
toy, immortalize the emotion of this moment and also give life to these
everyday images which are offered to me day after day. I offer you poetry and
sweetness in the pure state… as a child can see it and feel it in his heart
with her confident Eeyore. This accomplice to whom we entrust everything, who
protects us from everything, who tells us stories as much as we tell him and
who keeps all our secrets because nobody can understand us better that him/her.
Simon WEBER
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PUBLIC AWARD
Public Award - RDV•I 2018
The visitors voted for the work of Simon WEBER.
Following series have also been well placed:
- Anathème Photographies (Remelfrang / France) - Mon confident Bourriquet
- Bruno et Dorota SENECHAL (Sevrier / France) - Wapusk - Ours polaires - Polar bear
- Arnaud RICOU (Paris / France) - Daydreamers
- Charlaine AZOUARD (Schiltigheim / France) - Inertie / Young Section
Simon WEBER
Mulhouse / France
simon.web@orange.fr
Young Section
Night lights
Passionate amateur photographer, I began practicing photography in 2014. Nature lover and keen on traveling, I naturally moved towards landscape photography. The night is by definition the absence of natural light, produced by an inexhaustible source: the sun. Our eyes do not have the ability to discern details in the dark, and our perception of colors is degraded. However, our cameras sensors can collect the missing information, and let us discover another universe. I would like to share through this series of photographs, an aesthetic and colorful vision of the night taken in different places of the world during travel.
Michel RIEHL
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PAOLO WOODS' LIVE "COUP DE COEUR"
Paolo WOODS' Live "Coup de Cœur" - RDV•I 2018
During all the weekend, our art director Paolo WOODS was of a remarkable availability and gave many of his time to discover the work of all and each. He wished to put in the honor the work of an author to reward him of the quality of the editions, the presentation and the direction of the images.
He attributed his « coup de cœur live » to:
Michel RIEHL
Sucy en Brie / France
michel.riehl@gmail.com
http://www.michelriehl.fr/
Universalities
Universalities,on one side natural elements of terrestrial origin, aquatic plant, animal, on the other constructions and human transformations related to its activities. In different fields, such as technology, agriculture or art. By assembling these photos I want to show the similarities of forms, movements, compositions, to emphasize Universality thanks to the diptychs that are presented to you. The materials, colors, shapes, none of this is invented because already existing. Yes man transforms, assembles and builds, but he uses only materials existing on our planet or in the universe.
Martin BARZILAI
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1st BOOK AWARD
1st book award - Editor - RDV•I 2018
Martin BARZILAI
Paris / France
martin.barzilai@gmail.com
www.martin-barzilai.com
Refuzniks – how to say no to the Israelian army
They are called Tamar, Yaron or Gal, they are students, farmers, postmen or former officers. They live in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem, they are 20, 40 or 60 years old. Between 2007 and 2017, the photographer Martin Barzilai has met several times about fifty of these Israelis called “refuzniks” who refuse, for political or moral reasons, to serve a society militarized to the extreme where the passage by the army is constitutive of citizenship. These refuzniks tell the whole story of Israel, its faults and its contradictions, its plural character. And draw a portrait of a society where everything will have to be rethought to build a less dark future.
Rob HORNSTRA
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2nd BOOK AWARD
2nd book award - Self-editor - RDV•I 2018
Rob HORNSTRA
Utrecht / The Netherlands
studio@robhornstra.com
www.robhornstra.com
Man Next Door
My neighbour Kid was 42 when he died. He regularly swept our shared porch, put out the rubbish and kept an eye on things when I was away. As Kid couldn’t read well, I helped him with his mail. He borrowed my phone whenever he didn’t have any credit on his own. Kid had a turbulent life: he was banned from seeing his son and struggled with alcohol and drug addiction. In the last year of his life, he spent more and more time with drifters and junkies, begging on the street for change.
Chris DAVIES
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3rd BOOK AWARD
3rd book award - Coup de cœur - RDV•I 2018
Chris DAVIES
Massongy / France
chris@souletude.eu
Soul'étude
The British author born in 1964 was
raised on the French Riviera, in German, with a racket in hand. At the same
time he will also very early grab, with the other hand, a camera that will
become, for years and around the world, his faithfull companion. Of his Homéric
quest, he shares here some of the decisive moments : the rise and fall of the
most famous german tennis familly (with whom he grew up), his dissolute
childhood and his encounter with photography on a path of awakening put to the
test by fighting to survive his childhood dreams, become champion, to find his
roots and be a good father. Shamelessly and without detours, it is a
photographic and spiritual journey of more than fifty years in which the author
invites us. Beautiful, inspiring and moving, he manages in sixty minutes to
shake the intimate in each one of us while succeeding the delicate marriage
between writing and photography.
Bruno et Dorota SENECHAL
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PUBLIC BOOK AWARD
4th book award - Public Award - RDV•I 2018
Bruno et Dorota SENECHAL
Sevrier / France
brunodorotaphotography@yahoo.fr
www.brunodorotaphotography.com
Wapusk - Ours polaires - Polar bear
This book is a collection of
photographs and the story of a journey in extreme conditions (-57°), a tribute
to one of the most iconic animal species on Earth, the Polar Bear. It was to
Northern Manitoba, Canada that Bruno & Dorota Sénéchal went in winter for a unique,
rare and intimate experience with these great predators. The authors, wildlife
photographers and great travelers, specialists of the Canadian Far North and
the cold, share with us here secrets of a magnificent adventure of animal life,
and also valuable field advice about photography in extreme cold weather
conditions.
