The Substance Beneath the Visible

The Substance Beneath the VisibleAboutGalleriesMultimediaBooksContactLinksStephane Janin was born in France in 1968. An art/media/communication teacher and educator, he also practises photography for more than twenty years now. Janin has lived in Phnom Penh-Cambodia, in Washington DC in the USA. He now resides in Narbonne, South of France."The Substance Beneath the Visible was initiated from an interest into a subject I had not really focused on during my first 15 years of photo- practise: landscape. In 2006, when I was still living in Cambodia, I experimented capturing images with boxes (camera obscura) loaded with black and white paper, making tests with three eyes on one box. The juxtaposition of three supposedely identical pictures one to another created a panoramic landscape that doesn't exist in reality but that's still bound to that reality. I found interest in the way these camera obscura reinvented and restructured reality in a landscape that couldn't be seen before. I repeated the experiment, preparing more paper negatives in the darkroom, using left over pieces of photo paper, incorporating damages and scratches onto the paper, before the images are shot." "Though we seem far from it, I still consider this work as a documentation project of uncharted territories, wandering or "hobo-ing" through cities, neighborhood, villages, along roads, sneaking in the backyard of houses, bringing to surface clues and evidences of the places visited..."Stephane Janin was born in France in 1968. An art/media/communication teacher and educator, he also practises photography for more than twenty years now. "The Substance Beneath the Visible" was initiated in Cambodia in 2006. Janin currently resides in the United States, in Washington DC. The Substance Beneath the Visible was initiated from an interest into a subject I had not really focused on during my first 15 years of photo-practice: landscapes. By 2006, when I was still living in Cambodia I experimented capturing images with boxes (camera obscura) loaded with black and white paper, making tests with three eyes on one box. The juxtaposition of three supposedly identical pictures one to another created a panoramic landscape that doesnt exist in reality but thats still bound to that reality. I found interest in the way these camera obscura reinvented and restructured reality in a landscape that could not be seen before. I repeated the experiment, and decided to make a work from it, preparing more paper negatives in the darkroom, using leftover pieces of photo paper, incorporating damages and scratches onto the negatives before the pictures are shot.Stephan The Substance Beneath the Visible was initiated from an interest into a subject I had not really focused on during my first 15 years of photo-practice: landscapes. By 2006, when I was still living in Cambodia I experimented capturing images with boxes (camera obscura) loaded with black and white paper, making tests with three eyes on one box. The juxtaposition of three supposedly identical pictures one to another created a panoramic landscape that doesnt exist in reality but thats still bound to that reality. I found interest in the way these camera obscura reinvented and restructured reality in a landscape that could not be seen before. I repeated the experiment, and decided to make a work from it, preparing more paper negatives in the darkroom, using leftover pieces of photo paper, incorporating damages and scratches onto the negatives before the pictures are shot. HomePage 83Page 126Page 127Page 143Page 26Page 27Page 13Page 120Page 28Page 129Page 8Page 9Page 84Page 90Page 91Page 92Page 93Page 17Page 94Page 14Page 95Page 15Page 16Page 128Page 2Page 131Page 132Page 133Page 134Page 135Page 136Page 137Page 112Page 138Page 139Page 140Page 141Page 29Page 144Page 30Page 18Page 19Page 96Page 97Page 98Page 99Page 100Page 101Page 125Page 102Page 103Page 104Page 105Page 106Page 107Page 108Page 109Page 111Page 67Page 68Page 69Page 38Page 57Page 70Page 39Page 40Page 59Page 11Page 41Page 42Page 43Page 118Page 119Page 20Page 72Page 82Page 21Page 73Page 22Page 74Page 75Page 79Page 80Page 81Page 85Page 86Page 87Page 10Page 44Page 45Page 121Page 46Page 122Page 47Page 123Page 48Page 0Page 49Page 50Page 51Page 52Page 32Page 114Page 33Page 115Page 34Page 35Page 36Page 37Page 88Page 142Page 71Page 124Page 53Page 54Page 4Page 55Page 56Page 113Page 23Page 110Page 24Page 25Page 7Page 117Page 6Page 116Page 12Page 1Page 76Page 77Page 78Page 60Page 61Page 62Page 31Page 63Page 89Page 130Page 64Page 65Page 66Page 5Page 145Page 146Page 147Page 148Page 149Page 150Page 151Page 152Page 155Page 153Page 154Page 156Page 157Page 158Page 159Page 160Page 161Page 162Page 163Page 164Page 165