FRANçOIS DUPONT
Color Traps

Pressing the trigger of the camera is the result of falling into a trap. We photographers can experience casual walks in the street as the constant and irrepressible catching of our eyes. An incredibly huge number of things, from small inanimate details to big complexe situations, can focus our attention. I feel like if I don’t only capture a photograph, but the photograph is capturing me too. Guiding our eyes and our mind, photography acts as a choir who drives us from an interest to another. One of the deeper calls I can hear is the shining of color. So I build my images on it, in multiple ways : pointing colorful topics, establishing round trips from a colorful element to another, framing subjects with colors or including a colorful element in a colorful area. I don’t want to reduce the exercise to a unique technique and one style of image. On the contrary, I just try to vary methods and compositions. But color always leads the game. And each game is a trap I never can resist.

Author
I’m a French creative professional, working mostly as a freelance designer and a photographer. Since my earliest childhood I experience a variety of art mediums like sketching, comics or photography. Today, my personal photo works reflects my high passion for color and graphic composition and include portrait, street photography, landscape, fashion and documentary. In 2014, I launched Hocus Focus, a french photography collective, in order to share visions, techniques and inspiration. I lived more than 4 years in Bolivia, where I worked as freelance and taught design and photography. I travelled in South America, Nepal and India and shot a lot of pictures in these countries.

Website
www.francoisdupont.fr

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