DAVID MATHIAS
Desert threshold

When France entered a 2nd lockdown, because of the contamination thresholds, the isolation and gradual withdrawals caused a desert of relationship.
I decided to shoot those whom I encounter everyday and who constitute a part of my « social » life without being strictly speaking intimate.
I choose to deal with the constraints of the lockdown: A session of 1 hour, at less than 1 km from home, at least at 1 meter of the model. I gave them an appointment in the only place where they could unmask without being at home : in their building hall or stairwell.
An « intermediate » space, like a threshold, neither at home and outside;
In these « in between » spaces, the outfits stand out on interiors of vintage fancy buildings, but antiquated and small. It reveals a parisian sociology (which is also mine), which often seeks to prefer aesthetics to functional. The charm of an ancient world that we probably sought to hang during these sessions where we met, at the threshold of an urban desert.

Author
After 15 years dedicated to the creation of surrounded images and video environments for major events and shows, I decided to return to a human scale "face to face", by taking portraits.
These portraits paints people in a "neutral" presence where their body detaches from a minimalist, but structured and graphic, background. There is always an emotional and symbolic relationship between the people photographed and the environment in which they are portrayed.

Website
www.davidmathias.net

BACK TO GALLERY