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By Fanny Revault <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Ben Thomas passionately looks at the patterns of our environment. Because it is the city and the urban spaces in which we live that have attracted all his attention since his beginnings in photography. His work captures and magnifies these pieces of the city with a singular technique and a surprisingly pastel palette that immerses us in a dreamlike, unusual and pictorial universe. Meeting with the young Australian photographer at Galerie EST, rue Saint Maur, where he exhibits his latest series “Chroma”..<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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What is your artistic training?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

I have an education in the fields of 3d animation and multimedia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Your photographs look like paintings. How do you proceed to achieve this effect?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

There are a number of elements that I bring to my work. Firstly, the weather conditions are critical, big bright sunshine is needed to start the process. From there I concentrate on separating each colour in terms of its chroma and light characteristics to achieve the aesthetic I am aiming for.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Your architectural photography is sublimated by a palette of subtle colors, for what reason? <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

From the outset, I wanted to use colour as a mechanism to portray the familiar and everyday in a new way. This has been a common theme in my work to utilise various mechanisms to create a level of separation between the viewer and reality.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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What do you want to reveal?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

I’m very much interested in how people and place come together and cross over. What does place mean to the individual and how does it influence our everyday lives. How place representative of our culture and how does this change from city to city and country to country?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n