Here is a selection from the series shot by Simon Duhamel for Triptyqu3, a web-based fashion editorial magazine. The series is launched Tuesday December 29th at Le Salon Officiel during a 5@7 gathering. The images are currently showcased on Triptyqu3’s web magazine. Check it out here.
We can now finally unveil the Made of Stills Christmas Promo piece. The concept is pretty simple: transforming the Made of Stills boys into toys and offer them as gifts to our collaborators and clients. We targeted people of the industry and key collaborators and sent about 150 pieces all around.
The piece was printed on an 11×14 luster paper that could be folded so each partner of Made of Stills could be on the cover, depending on who the piece was addressed too. We then used our stencils to brand our envelopes and addressed them to our recipients with slick transparent tags.
The whole piece resulted from a collaboration with LeVisualBox, a new post-processing company we recently started to work with. They took our concept and pushed it to the next level, transfiguring us and enhancing slightly our muscular features! They created, retouched and designed the toys and packages using photoshop as well as 3D.
Simon Duhamel was commissioned to shoot the 2010 Grafika contest ad currently featured in the latest issue of Grafika Magazine. This installation was created by designer Karim Charlebois-Zariffa and was built over a period of two days, using wooden beads as raw material. Two images were produced, the print ad as well as the trophee design.
A long time ago looking for a photo show in Paris, I stumbled on «La maison de la Photographie» They were presenting Larry Clark’s work, Tulsa. Back then I had never heard about this man nor his work. Big, bold b&w prints… Pretty intense topic as well (see here) When I got back home I managed to get my hand on a copy of the book. Since that moment these images always stayed in my head. I often wished I returned to a more documentary aspect of photography. I thought that I needed to be travelling for that. Wrong.
About a year ago, a friend of mine started working with drug users downtown Montreal. Larry Clark’s work immediately came to my mind. I saw an opportunity to get back to my photographic roots. I asked him if I could hang out with him to start a photo project. It was a fairly long discussion before we found an angle that could be respectful for the photographed people as well as his own work. So last summer I finally started hanging downtown meeting these new people, chatting with them talking about my photo project and eventually taking pictures in various moments or their existences. These encounters changed the way I see these people when they cross my path in the city. It’s very interresting to get to know some of them, their stories, share their joys and sadness…
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