2015 / Book / Fine Art

Wax Dolls

  • Photographer
    Hakim Boulouiz

Cities are growing day after day. Life is being transformed and accelerated in the middle of modernity. In this context, the urban body is vibrating and experimenting with new adventures. It sneaks between advertising, windows, showcases, colors, prints, shadows and lights. The urban body is reflected and conditioned through architecture. It becomes an object that looks like a wax doll. With my concept, I wanted to stop on this fake figure of the humain being by the photographic act. My vision doesn’t show smooth postcard pictures, because for me the image of a contemporary city has become a puzzle game.

Hakim Boulouiz is a Professional Photographer, an Art Director and an Expert in Urban aesthetics with a multidisciplinary training. He currently lives and works in Switzerland. He is looking to tell stories around poetry, complexity, mystery and emotion by using all the layers involveding the construction of Urban Drama. After receiving a diploma in Architecture, a diploma in Filmmaking, a Master's degree in Territory Planning, he completed a PhD analyzing the mutual inspiration between urban modernity and the art of short film.