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March 4, 2008

 
Seven versions of Imprisonment: a multimedia night in Paris


On March 11, a popular non-profit photography/arts center in Paris, CONFLUENCES, will present an exceptional evening of photography and music developed around the theme of Imprisonment. Each photographic work will be accompanied by a music and sound performance, be it a live mini-concert, a multimedia projection, or live slideshow mixing.

Seven photographers offer us their interpretations of imprisonment, including:

  • There is Nothing Like Home: Daily life of Liberian and Ivory Coast refugees in camps of the Guinea Forest
  • L’Age en Peine: Aging in Prison
  • Normality: Hospitalized psychiatric patients of Nome Zamby in the Czech Republic
  • Cellules: Prison Cells of Brest
  • Les Condominos: the equivalent of gated American communities in Rio de Janeiro
  • Les Prisons de Guatemala: Prisons of Guatemala
  • Welcome on Board: Sailors abandoned by their shipowners


CONFLUENCES
190 bd de Charonne
Paris – 20eme
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
20:30
5 €
http://www.confluences.net/ecm


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1 Comments

Diarmait said:

I would have liked to have seen this. Arja Hyytiainen is one of my favourite contemporary photographers and I'd love to see how the impact of her images is changed or enhanced by the addition of a soundtrack. Lately I've been experimenting with setting my images to music (composed by a friend) in a slideshow format. It can have quite a powerful effect and it's a very enjoyable process playing with the timing and sequencing to provoke the desired feeling. I've been trying to do some research on this kind of thing but I've come up fairly empty. Would anyone out there know where I might look for something (articles or even names of photographers who have employed this method of presentation)? I know that Nan Goldin used music in her 'Ballad' but I've never had the joy of seeing it in its slideshow format. I also saw a piece by Michael Ackerman in Budapest last year that had his images set to music in a self-running slideshow. How did anyone who attended this event find it? Did the music make it a more visceral and affecting experience or did the music convolute or force the message of the photographs?

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