These 3D photos are about depression (yaaay!), which can affect both individuals and entire societies. When traumas and thought patterns we thought dead and buried seem to reappear in us like phantom limbs, to pull us down and obscure our view of the horizon. The photos were taken in western Romania, in winter 2014, where the ruins of a totalitarian system are ubiquitous in both the landscape and the mind. -direct link-...
Here is a new graphic novel presented in 3D, in a new narrative format designed for FocusCopus and for 3D. You will discover the history and the format at the same time as me, little by little, with the regular uploads of new pages. For the moment I don't know much more, so I can't explain it further. And it's just as well. -direct link- ...
The 3D photos of this series comes from the digital archives of the Library of Congress and from the Public Library of New York. These are two important collections of hight quality pictures, both in substance and in form, which are now in the public domain. Yet few people know them, because of the scarcity of 3D media in the public. Robert N. Dennis, for example, is relatively unknown while the quality and quantity of his work should have included him among the great names of photography. My first goal was therefore a modest contribution to publicize this unknown field of photography and art. Pictures damaged because of time had to be retouched to make 3D vision more comfortable. A long selection among the tens of thousands pictures has been necessary in order to keep only the representative pictures of a very special time. Stereoscopic photography has been the subject of a succession of periods, from a strong popular appeal to periods of disinterest or even almost dis...
Two lights, blue and yellow, are quietly playing in a park. Gradually, they start to consider each other, to test each other, to squabble, but stay equilibrate. None of them takes the upper hand until the blue is thrown into the water and disappears. The yellow will be alone and will lose control until invading the whole city. This little project was realized in Oradea (Romania) in collaboration with Dan Dragos, founder of the site "Oradea in imagini". The music was composed by Christopher Overbeck, an artist living in Oradea which you are going to hear about soon on Focuscopus. It is the first project and for the moment the only one requiring two cameras for the simultaneous shooting required by light painting. We should rather speak of light-sculpture, because as the name suggests, the light painting lets you paint a picture ; by moving a light in front of an open camera lens we create a flat shape, in 2D. But the movement is in the 3D space. The 3D picture makes it possi...
Economic crisis and mass unemployment creates frustrations that amplify the phenomenon of violence and stigmatization of minorities within societies This was checked several times in history throughout the world and this is still the case today. Everyone knows it, it became a commonplace. Everyone has in mind the images of the 29 crisis and the rise of fascism in Europe. But both the old outdated images in black and white that the countless movies and novels are far from our daily reality. By converting these old black and white pictures in color, and then in relief, we don't make them just more realistic and attractive, but we make feel the characters of the pictures with the feeling usually reserved for those that you come across everyday (see "stereoscopy"). The aim is not to understand or analyze anything - there are novels and essays for that - but simply to feel : feel the humiliation of these fathers of families with thick hands, patinated by handwork, with hands wh...
In December 1951, the young Ernesto Guevara de la Serna and his friend Alberto Granado began the crossing of the South American continent by motorcycle. They were mostly motivated by a thirst for freedom and initiatic adventures that characterized some of the youth of that time described the 'Beat Generation'. The horizon was open, they left to reach it. During this journey, the future Che Guevara was directly faced with the misery and exploitation of the peoples of South America, which helped to forge his revolutionary ideals. Another horizon was then opened to him and he was equally determined to reach it, whatever the obstacles that would be on his way. In December 2015, I decided to undertake the same journey, not by motorcycle but with Google Street View. All along this trip, I took some pictures of the horizon; two shots at an interval of one click to create a 3D picture of the landscape. This process transcribes well the impression that we can have while watching th...
The 3D photos of this series comes from the digital archives of the Library of Congress and from the Public Library of New York. These are two important collections of hight quality pictures, both in substance and in form, which are now in the public domain. Yet few people know them, because of the scarcity of 3D media in the public. Robert N. Dennis, for example, is relatively unknown while the quality and quantity of his work should have included him among the great names of photography. My first goal was therefore a modest contribution to publicize this unknown field of photography and art. Pictures damaged because of time had to be retouched to make 3D vision more comfortable. A long selection among the tens of thousands pictures has been necessary in order to keep only the representative pictures of a very special time. Stereoscopic photography has been the subject of a succession of periods, from a strong popular appeal to periods of disinterest or even almost disap...
Since the dawn of humanity, as soon that a technical of modeling or sculpture was offered to a man, it was used to represent the nakedness of the woman. This is a characteristic of the man, or even a survival instinct necessary for the reproduction of humankind. Indeed, the men who were born with a sexual interest in anthills were less able to perform this daunting task. Therefore, their genes were not transmitted thus they disappeared despite their recreational interest. On the contrary, it is likely that the men born with an obsessive sexual attraction to women with two breasts and a wide pelvis with a hole in the middle had children more easily. These attributes were pretty helpful for this practice. So these children have received the same genes and they reproduced themselfs so easily that they became too numerous and had to walk around the globe. This is the story of your distant ancestors, it explains how we arrived at the sex-obsessed world of today, and why we can't do any a...
