48 Page softcover 21cm x 16cm book with card wraparound cover in an edition of 350 copies. 027 - Stéphane Arnaud is the twenty-seventh in an ongoing Bi-Monthly series publishing the work of emerging photographers. The special edition also contains a signed and numbered Giclée print (one of an edition of twenty five) Print sizes: "Untitled, NY" - 18 x 15 cm "Untitled, Le Havre" - 20 x 15 cm "Untitled, Lisbon" - 18 x 15 cm Artist Statement I rarely plan a photograph. They come to me the way light comes into a room, quietly, often when I'm thinking about something else. What I do isn't really hunting. It's closer to staying available: letting things arrange themselves and being ready when it happens. I'm convinced there is nothing that doesn't deserve to be photographed. Anything can become a picture, and so photography appears to me as a permanent quest, an attention that never quite switches off. The subject was never the point. What I'm after is a certain silence inside the frame, a moment that holds still long enough to mean something. I work in black and white and in color, sometimes sharp, sometimes grainy, occasionally blurred. I've stopped apologizing for the imperfections. A little grain, a slight movement, these are not mistakes to me. They're the texture of having been there, of a hand that was present rather than a machine that was precise. What I look for is a subjective photograph rather than a merely factual or figurative one. An image where the gaze precedes the intention, where looking comes before deciding. Bored with obvious reality, I'm fascinated by its transformation into a subjective vision. I want to reach the point where, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Less descriptive, more creative; less informative, more suggestive; less prose, more poetry. I photograph because it's how I pay attention to the world, and because now and then a fragment of the everyday turns, almost on its own, into something I want to keep. Related Titles to 027 - Stéphane Arnaud 001 - Luka Khabelashvili 002 - Margaret Durow 003 - Michael McCluskey 004 - Hollie Fernando 005 - Dino Kuznik 006 - Lauren Tepfer 007 - Natalie Christensen 008 - Nick Prideaux 009 - Polly Alderton 010 - Mirko Saviane 011 - Joe Webb 012 - Oliver Takáč 013 - Delfina Carmona 014 - Teresa Freitas 015 - Summer Wagner 016 - Robin Claire Fox 017 - Joakim Möller 018 - Joshua Amirthasingh 019 - Lena Aires 020 - Fredrik Axling 021 - Merton Wu 022 - Morten Lasskogen 023 - Sara Silks 024 - Alex Kittoe 025 - Thibaut Derien 026 - Nathalie Ericson
