2014 / Editorial / Personality

Urbain microscope

  • Photographer
    Viriya Chotpanyavisut

I’m interested in the place between reality and the abnormal or imaginary world. I enjoy changing the atmosphere of that which surrounds us in order to highlight our position in a moment in connection with the environment, objects and people. The structure of cities is the first thing I notice in order to find the traces of the ignored, that which is inaccessible in my daily life and to see the dependency on these things in different places. An investigation of the intensity of light working on an optical limit of an eyes’ perception is my subject of interest. A microscopic elements found in urban life which cannot be perceived by naked eye (need scientifique tools to observe this phenomenon) becomes the focal point of my experimentation in Urban Microscope. The movement of light particals, the incident of a reflection, I consider this a respiration, a breath of light. This phenomena can be perceived by the dust particles , gaz, vaporisation of water,…ect.This series of photos capturing a real situation, was only witness to an outstanding time and space. I tried to show the constitution of space over a time break in an attempt to reveal things that were hidden. My intention is to capture a kind of light-thinning to make visible these energy waves and reveal the small particles barely visible to the naked eye. The camera makes it possible to halt movement, change the color or saturate the space to show ‘’ things that come from nothing ” For me, this is the meeting between the environment and floating material. The substances suspended in the air allows the integration of the movement to be merged with the duration. My images are used to stimulate and reflect beauty in an imperfect state of incompleteness in the world . They also show that this environment around us seems so abstract and lost in the moment.