Photography titled "les graffiti des Ba…" by Bernard Levy, Original Artwork, Digital Photography

les graffiti des Baumettes # 12 (no sale) (2018) Photography by Bernard Levy

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Original Artwork Photography, Digital Photography

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Le graffiti des prisons est souvent inspiré par une culture et une revendication identitaires.
Celui-ci s'étend sur toute la largeur du mur, sous la fenêtre de la cellule et les tuyaux de chauffage.
L'auteur de l'inscription a pu se procurer une couleur pourtant inhabituelle, ou a procédé à des mélanges de couleurs, avec une recherche d'originalité malgré la dégradation manifeste de la cellule qui en résulte.
Par ce geste, on revendique son appartenance à un groupe ou une communauté, un quartier souvent.
C'est une façon de maintenir le lien avec l'extérieur et de ne pas être réduit à un numéro d'écrou, ou à un numéro de cellule. On conserve ainsi ses racines.
"La CAYOLLE", c'est une histoire longtemps partagée après la deuxième guerre mondiale par des populations de migrants regroupées dans ce secteur géographique, éloigné du centre-ville de Marseille mais situé à proximité de la prison des Baumettes.
Cette proximité a également favorisé le maintien des liens familiaux pour certains, et sans doute aussi, à une période ancienne, l'existence des parloirs "sauvages".

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Baumettes Prison Cellule Graffiti Murs

Bernard Levy

France

Bernard Levy is an artist photographer whose photographic career has been built up in small successive touches, according to adventures and personal experiences. This initiatory approach developed at the end[...]

First in film and black and white. Then the color will be invited to restore a complex and plural universe, both real and dreamlike.

This walker lost in his universe likes to roam, stroll, dream, "wander" over time which unfolds to capture the furtive and fugitive moments but also the vibrations of this changing world. He discovers them in the agitation of the urban space and crowds, in rediscovered silence, calm or fragments of solitude. Sometimes in disused sites, destined to be abandoned and forgotten. Then, a handover through images restores their identity visual.

This wandering around the memory of the place raises questions. The author reveals characters and territories to explore, sensitive surfaces sometimes scratched, sometimes transgressive. It invites the visitor to extend the reflection and the story, to seize them, to appropriate them and thus participate in a process of construction and deconstruction of their imagination.

This narrative and visual universe captured on the fly and in the urgency of the fleeting moment is developed around the photographic essay. He draws his inspiration from humanist photography and street photography. And it is willingly offered for a sharing of emotions.

Bernard Levy lives and works in Marseille (France). He participated in many exhibitions mainly in Provence. His book “So Selfie! crossed views” was published in 2021.