Biography
French photographer Antoine Bruy graduated from the Vevey School of Photography in Switzerland in 2011. His work studies people and their relationship to privacy, their physical environment, and the economic and intellectual conditions that determine them. Bruy's work has been widely exhibited in Europe and worldwide. He won several awards including the LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards and the Getty Images Emerging Talent Awards. He is currently based in Lille, France.
Portfolio
Scrublands
From 2010 to 2013, I hitchhiked throughout Europe with the aim to meet men and women who made the
radical choice to live away from cities, willing to abandon their lifestyle based on performance, efficiency
and consumption.
Without any fixed route, driven by encounters and chance, this trip
eventually became for me a similar kind of initiatory quest to those of these families. I met people with
fates which I think should not only be seen at a political level, but more importantly, as daily and
immediate experiences.
The heterogeneity of places and situations tells a lot about
the beautiful paradox of the pursuit of an utopia through permanent empirical attempts and sometimes errors.
These are in some way spontaneous responses to the societies these men and women left
behind. Therefore their land is exploited but never submitted, the time has lost his tight linearity to
become a slow and deliberate pace. No more clock ticking but the ballet of days and nights, seasons and
lunar cycles.
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