Black Holes #27 (2017) Photography by Julien Sunye

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  • Original Artwork Photography, Digital Photography on Paper
  • Dimensions Height 15.8in, Width 23.6in
  • Categories Figurative
Photo dans la série "Black Holes" prise à Wimmis, Suisse. About this artwork: Classification, Techniques & Styles Digital Photography Techniques[...]
Photo dans la série "Black Holes" prise à Wimmis, Suisse.
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Seeking a way out of his deep and long depression, Sunyé familiarises himself with the theme of trauma. He learns that early childhood trauma is burried deep in our subconsious yet defines our present. In a[...]

Seeking a way out of his deep and long depression, Sunyé familiarises himself with the theme of trauma. He learns that early childhood trauma is burried deep in our subconsious yet defines our present. In a sense, we thus become prisoners of our past.

During the summer of 2016 Sunyé visits the battlefields of Verdun in France and is strikken by the idea that this entanglement with our past doesn’t only play out on an invidiual level but on a societal level too. He finds that the wars we commemorate distract us from the fact that the violence never ended. What do peace and freedom mean when no bombs fall over our heads but inside ourselves we are still trapped?

Sunyé feels at home between the ruins and the silence he finds on the shooting locations he visits between 2016 and 2018. He is soothed by the humming of the engine during thousands of miles he spends on the road traveling for this project. The prospect of another shoot is what keeps him going through these difficult years.

Two years and over 20 photoshoots later, this series of photographs honours those fallen in collective violence as well as those who today are still trapped within themselves and who keep defying the elusive torments of their own past.

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En 2013, Julien Sunyé est plongé dans une dépression sévère dont les causes lui échappent. Elle a pour conséquence de l’empêcher de travailler et d’être dans l’incapacité d’exprimer ses émotions et donc de continuer à vivre. Cherchant à s’en sortir, Julien Sunyé s’intéresse aux différentes formes de traumatismes. Il apprend que le traumatisme de la petite enfance est profondément ancré dans le subconscient et qu’il peut définir le présent. Il comprend qu’on devient alors prisonnier de son passé.

Au cours de l'été 2016, le photographe décide de se rendre sur les champs de bataille de Verdun. Il est alors frappé par l'idée que le passé peut enfermer un individu mais également tout un peuple. Apaisé par le travail photographique qu’il mène ainsi dans plusieurs pays en Europe sur des sites “sensibles ou historiques”, Julien Sunyé sent qu’il est au bon endroit pour mener sa réflexion. Chaque nouvelle séance photographique l’aide à surmonter un peu plus sa dépression jusqu’à parvenir à s’en sortir enfin en septembre 2018.

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