For the photo theme entitled « The Red Shoe » I created a form of packaging where the shoes become actors in a ritual of seduction.
In 2004, the theme of the annual CAPIC (Canadian Association of Photographers and Illustrators in Communication) exhibition was « The Red Shoe ».
The organizers bought a pair of red shoes that each participant used to create a photo featuring the shoes. From day one, the theme was received less than wholeheartedly. Certain people found it too restrictive, others too frivolous. Several photographers simply weren't inspired by the theme and opted out of the exhibition. Personally, I felt inspired by the controversy and chose a social angle for my photo. I photographed a young Asian child holding a box with the red shoes as though it were an offering-a reference to the child labor often employed in the manufacturing of luxury objects. On the shoes box, I created a scene where the shoes were like a couple, entangled in a game of seduction. Take a look at « Red Shoes ».
In 2007, the theme of the annual CAPIC (Canadian Association of Photographers and Illustrators in Communication) exhibition was « Les dessous » (underneath, below, beneath, behind the scene). So I photographed an obese person from below, standing on a piece of glass, and called the photo « The Weight Above ».
Humanoids
In 2005, the theme of the annual CAPIC (Canadian Association of Photographers and Illustrators in Communication) exhibition was « The human in all its forms-the human mosaic ».
For the occasion, I photographed several naked people standing like the famous Leonardo Da Vinci illustration, and then made a collage from the parts of their bodies. Because the people were photographed in their own homes, each photo carried a little bit of that personal environment with it. To complete the collage, I had to distort the photos a little, reinforcing the notion that each of us is unique and cannot be lost in the group. It's impossible to create a human, unthinkable to force them into an ideal mould, or impose an ideology...
The lobby of a major agency, with the coming and going of business people. What if we stopped them in their tracks, suspended their activity for an instant? A photographic moment.
This is from the creative floor in one of the city's big agencies: the energy of the crowd, fixed forever in time.
A busy street corner: passers-by. Cars stop and go. Imagine if we derailed time and stopped everyone in the same time-space photographic moment...
In 2003, the world media showed startling images of the attacks that took place in Fallujah, Iraq. Some of the charred victims were dragged through the streets of the city and hung from a bridge.
This photo was inspired by that atrocity.
