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Diaspora by Omar Victor Diop

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New work from Omar Victor Diop, the Senegalese photographer behind the striking [re-] Mixing Hollywood (Onomollywood), Le Futur du Beau and Le Studio des Vanités projects, is always a cause for excitement. The artist cimes back this month with a photo series at the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair in London. In a twelve-image set titled Project Diaspora, Diop showcases his penchant for vibrant colors and highly stylized portraits while again delving into the conversation about representation of Africans on the world stage. See more at http://bit.ly/1we57i5

China by Chen Jiagang

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Former architect and museum director, Chen Jiagang offers dazzling works mixing documentary and staged photography. His pictures paint the urban and social upheavals of contemporary China without artifice and with an undeniable subjectivity. Ruined cities, disfigured landscapes, abandoned factories or renaissance, scenes with deceptive appearances, all these places full of history and uncertainty are both documented and reinvented. He loves indeed to populate this apparent urban chaos with delicate female presences. Chen Jiagang captures the echo of a past life, of a forgotten memory with a necessary awareness. More about Chen Jiagang http://bit.ly/1uphPck

New York Chinatown par Franck Bohbot

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Franck Bohbot consacre sa recherche artistique aux espaces publics et aux paysages urbains. Fasciné par l’iconographie cinématographique, il centre sa création autour du rapport entre l’individu et l’architecture. Dans cette série, Franck Bohbot a pris le contre pied du cliché du Chinatown animé. Ici, pas de bruits, pas de livraisons, ni de rues animées, ou de touristes. Le silence et l’architecture du Lower East Side sont rois. A mi-chemin entre poésie et décors cinématographiques de science fiction, il a réalisé une série nocturne du quartier vidé de son activité, de ses habitants avec comme décor New York. Il en découle un voyage énigmatique, créant un univers pictural et quasi fantastique en pleine nuit. Franck Bohbot est le lauréat 2014 des International Awards of Architectural Photography http://bit.ly/1vchwU5