FOURTH WINNER OF RPS WALL GRANT – JEAN-MARC CAIMI
Our fourth grantee for the Reminders Photography Stronghold Wall Grant has been selected and is to be awarded to French-Italian photographer Jean-Marc Caimi and his project “Daily Bread”. Congratulations!!
His exhibition now is scheduled in June 2014, more details soon!
4TH RPS WALL GRANTEE ©JEAN-MARC CAIMI
4TH RPS WALL GRANTEE ©JEAN-MARC CAIMI
4TH RPS WALL GRANTEE ©JEAN-MARC CAIMI
4TH RPS WALL GRANTEE ©JEAN-MARC CAIMI
Daily Bread
It’s a personal account of three years of work, photographing with a black and white film and a point and shoot camera life as it unrolls, following its unique and scattered scheme.
The pictures introduced here belong to an instinctive, intimate need.
“Daily Bread” has been structured and edited in parallel as a book project and an exhibition where pictures are presented both coupled and single.
Statement
As it is customary, I learned to give a sense to things straightaway, a meaning to life while it happens. A passive action, pretending that it all belonged to the fact of “”being here and now””. I muted the anxiety, the fear of the unknown that even the banality of life contains. The opposite effort is simply to wait, to observe the signs. When the cloud of dust spread by my own presence settles, the view of the present gets clearer, it rejoins with an emotional past. People, places, time passed waiting for something, lost and found.
These pictures represent a rite of passage through my own existence. My son, my relationships, my friends, my fleeting encounters. Sex, food, nature and the city where I live. Places where I want to be. Situations where I am at ease about or unsafe. This all contains an excess of energy, a spill that makes everything unstable, pulsating, restless. A palpitation, that could be subtle or violent, which I want to photograph. There are no dots to connect. I am no more giving a sense to things.
I hold to hear their murmur, instead.”
Jean-Marc Caimi biography
French-Italian photographer and journalist, Jean-Marc Caimi works as a freelance for the New York based agency Redux Pictures. His pictures mostly cover humanitarian and social issues. He also follows more personal and intimate projects. His works are regularly awarded and published in the international press. He is also the didactic director of a photography course dedicated to refugees and migrants living in Rome.
http://issuu.com/jmcaimi/docs/daily_bread_excerpt