Marine Lepetit
Photographer
After the end of my photography studies in Gobelins school in Paris in 2011, I came back to Bordeaux where I grew up. Since then I have been reporting on building sites for an engineer magazine and illustrations for tourist guides. I am also a wedding and birthday photographer, I love to catch important events in people’s lives and to think that maybe their great-grandchildren will see those pictures in many years… I define my personal work as documentary, trying to shoot raw reality without spending so much time in post-production. The photo story presented here is a project I made all around China between April and June. When I heard about the outrageous quantity of concrete this country used in only a few years, creating a real estate bubble to encourage growth, I wanted to see what the landscape had turned into. I went there on my own with my camera and my darkroom for two months, from Shanghaï to Kunming, to capture all those entirely new districts of concrete, glass and steel buildings with modern architecture that replace traditional houses and cultivated lands.
I’m now planning my next photo report in Mali, thinking about a more social subject that will correspond with my never ending story of french rural life in Creuse, entitled CP23460.
Marine Lepetit
Photographer
After the end of my photography studies in Gobelins school in Paris in 2011, I came back to Bordeaux where I grew up. Since then I have been reporting on building sites for an engineer magazine and illustrations for tourist guides. I am also a wedding and birthday photographer, I love to catch important events in people’s lives and to think that maybe their great-grandchildren will see those pictures in many years… I define my personal work as documentary, trying to shoot raw reality without spending so much time in post-production. The photo story presented here is a project I made all around China between April and June. When I heard about the outrageous quantity of concrete this country used in only a few years, creating a real estate bubble to encourage growth, I wanted to see what the landscape had turned into. I went there on my own with my camera and my darkroom for two months, from Shanghaï to Kunming, to capture all those entirely new districts of concrete, glass and steel buildings with modern architecture that replace traditional houses and cultivated lands.
I’m now planning my next photo report in Mali, thinking about a more social subject that will correspond with my never ending story of french rural life in Creuse, entitled CP23460.
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Bayil – Behind The HillsBayil, BakuOn the horizon of the district between old, handmade fences and the sky, you can see the newly built glass skyscrapers in the bright light of the coastal center of the city, as if portending future innovations of Bayil. (more…)
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Things That Were Are Things AgainMay 13, 2023 – Oct 20, 2024This year comes the 25th anniversary of the GfZK at Johannapark. Against the background of the political and social changes that took place after 1989, social and ecological sustainability was already a central topic when the GfZK was founded in 1990. (more…)
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Mild Vertigo by Mieko KanaiBook PublicationThe apparently unremarkable Natsumi lives in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and two sons: she does the laundry, goes to the supermarket, visits friends, and gossips with neighbors. (more…)
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Malta Biennale 2024Mar 11 – May 2024The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO, has just granted its patronage to maltabiennale.art, which will be held in Malta for the first time in the coming year. UNESCO’s patronage is considered as a high form of recognition for this art festival (more…)
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Interview with Saul LeiterBy David Gibson“History of art is a history of great things neglected and ignored and mediocre things being admired. At different times things are different. The history of photography is a history of changes.” –Saul Leiter (more…)
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Ingredients MiningAug 5, 2023 – Jan 7, 2024Beginning in 2023 BusanMoCA Platform: Ingredients Mining is to be an annual program held by Busan Museum of Contemporary Art with the aim of exploring, manifesting, and disseminating ongoing social concerns and reflections on ecosystems and the environment (more…)
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Performance AutumnSep 30 – Nov 19, 2023This autumn, we are presenting a series of entirely new performances created by artists from the north of Sweden exclusively for Bildmuseet. You will meet expressions blurring the boundaries between art, music, sound, and dance, taking place in various spaces throughout the museum: exhibition halls and stairwells, open areas and enclosed rooms. (more…)
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Max BeckmannArtist / PainterMax Beckmann (1884–1950) was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement. (more…)
