ARTIST TALK
 
Philippe Bazin talks about his work and his residency in Helsinki
(in English)
 
Tuesday 1 September 2009 at 5 p.m.
 
Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, Kalevankatu 18 B, 00100 Helsinki

 
Photographic artist Philippe Bazin (Paris, FR) is artist-in-residency at Photographic Gallery Hippolyte/Union of Artist Photographers in Finland 15 August – 15 September 2009. Philippe Bazin’s artist residency focuses on photographic research, including portraits and other forms, in the environment of the Helsinki University of Technology and the technology-oriented corporate world situated in Otaniemi, Espoo.
 
Philippe Bazin (b.1954) is based in Paris, France. He has worked with extensive series depicting faces of his fellow creatures. Through the photographs, people who are often given no attention to and have no collective visibility are visible anew. For Bazin it is not so much about making portraits, in the usual meaning of the phrase, as to claim the presence in the world of beings who are unknown to him, but without whom he could not live. Philippe Bazin’s work includes: 1985-1993 three large series of faces in medical institutions, 1993-1995 children in secondary school, 1993-2000 Anatomies dealt with restoration sites of cultural places, 1999 he photographed 48 Yugoslavian militant women with diverse ethnic backgrounds. He has also done a work with all the faces of the French presidents. Philippe Bazin has been artist-in-residence in Porto (Portugal), 2001 and Scotland (UK), 2002. Bazin has more recently also worked with video, and published several books.

image below: Philippe Bazin, from the series Femmes Militantes des Balkans, 1999

For more information and images of Philippe Bazin’s work please see:
www.galerieannebarrault.com/philippe_bazin/index_eng.html

Philippe Bazin’s residency in Helsinki is a collaboration of:
Centre culturel française, Helsinki (FI)
HIAP – Helsinki International Artist-in-Residence Program, Helsinki (FI)
Northers Photographic Centre, Oulu  (FI)
Photographic Centre Peri, Turku (FI)
Photographic Gallery Hippolyte/Union of Artist Photographers, Helsinki (FI)
Pole Image Haute de Normandie, Rouen (FR)

For further information please contact: Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, director Mitro Kaurinkoski, mitro.kaurinkoski[at]hippolyte.fi, tel. +358 (0)9 – 612 33 44, www.hippolyte.fi