I am a plastic photographer, who has been developing a research activity for many years, around form and colors, with decontextualization as an essential guideline.

My work can relate to form in architecture and be characterized by my series “Urban geometry” and “Urban geometry V2” which have been the subject of numerous exhibitions or publications.

They can also find as a basic, the tearing of time on the material (old posters, old murals …) and become my Abstract series.

In this sense, my series “Between urban and architecture” combines in a mixture and a recomposition in post-processing of old posters and characteristic views of major world capitals. The spectator is thus placed in front of an in-depth reading of my images, to rediscover the places photographed.

The image presented today on FRAMES is called ERos # 12. On the basis of the petals of the flower named “Arum”, with subjective forms, I found it relevant to strongly rework the initial shot with photoshop in order to release the erotic side of these leaves which become entangled during the growth of the plant. The shapes are dimmed, the software settings often pushed to the maximum, and combined with my great experience of this product.

This photograph will be able to complete my ERos series which reinterprets plant forms, to bring out their sensuality. I also work this graphic aspect from the voluptuousness of the snow, the bark of the trees, which are a wonderful playground to fuel this research.

This activity is never finished in this sense. The series live, feed on new creations, allowing to offer the spectators in my exhibition places or at festivals, a proposal always updated. In your turn, I wish you to enter this proposed image, to dream, to reinterpret it according to your own imagination.

What do you think are the TWO most impactful features that make your image a good photograph? Don’t be shy!

For me, this image is suitable because it questions the eye in a first vision. I really wanted the reader to wonder what is being photographed. May the many blacks in the image reveal its mystery, after a long observation. And of course that sensuality emerges from it.

If you would be able to make this photo once again, what would be the ONE thing you would like to do better or different?

I think this image is really accomplished. I could not consider a more successful post treatment.

Didier Villette shared his photograph in the FRAMES Facebook Group.

Photographer

Didier Villette, France
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Equipment and  Settings

Olympus M5 MarkII
Photoshop