Space Project: A Series Of Cold And Lonely Photographs
Posted by Martin_Connelly on Tuesday, Jul 06, 2010
Space Project, by photographer Vincent Fournier is part archive, part whimsy. According to a gallery release the project is based on Fournier’s fascination with the Jules Verne novel “From the Earth to the Moon.”
The photographs are from the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center of the Russian Federation, the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, and the Atacama Desert Observatories in Chile, among other places, and they are not happy. Fournier seems to favor landscapes so large and empty as to render his subjects insignificant, and his interior work is stark if nothing else. There’s nothing overtly negative, but WALL-E this is not.
Fournier was born in Burkina Faso, studied in France, and is now based in Belgium.
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