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Photographer: Charlotte Bresson
A French family expatriated to Los Angeles for professional reasons. The luxurious house, the pool, the Mexican gardener, the American dream. The mid-life crisis. Suddenly not loving each other anymore. Blaming your wife, dreaming of Freedom with a capital letter, hating your life, wanting to go back. Throwing it all away. Doing successes in front of the pool all day, with a glass of white wine in your hand. The only contact with the outside world is the pool-guy. In the evening, with the children in bed and the husband far away, repeating to yourself: 'This can't be happening'.
One day, to take your survival instinct. And your car. Avoid the motorways, end up on dead-end dirt roads. In the middle of the night, not passing anyone. At nine o'clock in the evening, curtain up. Everything is over. Only the neon lights of the diners remain: OPEN. And deserted. Cowboys, Indians. Stares into the void. Sketched stories.
Crossing them. Photographing them. Only passing through. To leave. They stay there. Will not move. Printed in my pictures. Embodied in our pictures, by dint of having inspired over the years those who passed by. Whole lives passing within a few miles. Somewhere in Utah, New Mexico or Arizona. At the entrance to a no-man's land. These tiny wanderings in the vastness of the American territory. These solitudes. These immobile traces. Our own.
And suddenly, to realize that somewhere else is waiting for you. And that this elsewhere is finally the promise, tenuous certainly, but the promise all the same, that makes you feel alive again: that of all possibilities.
Charlotte Bresson, who was destined to be a private detective, gave up shadowing but kept her curiosity about the world by leaving their share of mystery and suggestiveness to the things around her. The spaces and objects photographed thus become so many immobile moments that tell the story of Man in filigree.
Exhibitions:
A freelance photographer, she co-founded the collective Sensitive Images, with whom she exhibited in London and Paris and won the Discovery Prize awarded by Peter Knapp at the Pierrevert Festival in 2014.
Christmas in Los Angeles California Christmas in Los Angeles California
The Americans have a way of celebrating festivities with a mix of childhood joy and excessive consumerism. At Christmas, the streets are lit by thousands of electric garlands while people carry bags of shopping on each arm. The Americans have a way of...
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When I saw this dog waiting patiently for his owner on the passenger side, I started to day dream for a moment that we’d be travelling together. When I saw this dog waiting patiently...
From 1'207.06 CHF AvailableLost in Arizona Lost in Arizona
After a brief stop in Pheonix, I wander the deserted roads of Arizona. I will also make some fears when the night begins to fall and the GPS no longer emits. After a brief stop in Pheonix, I...
From 1'207.06 CHF AvailableGas station, Utah Gas station, Utah
A tank of petrol, a photo and I’m off. A tank of petrol, a photo and I’m off.
From 742.80 CHF AvailableOrange is the new black, Los Angeles, California Orange is the new black, Los Angeles,...
Once I arrived in LA, I discovered the America I saw in movies as a child. Newspapers delivered outside the door in the morning, the distinctive letter boxes, the old cars that remind me of the 70s movies that I watched so often. Once I arrived in LA, I discovered...
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The light in New Mexico is unique. It even manages to make news-stands photogenic. The light in New Mexico is unique. It...
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My house on the outskirts of LA. It’s a big house with palm trees, a swimming pool…all the clichés of the American Dream in one. My house on the outskirts of LA. It’s...
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I bumped into Richard in a diner. He came here every day to have his breakfast served by Carmen. He looked as if he had stepped out of a Western. I bumped into Richard in a diner. He...
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One December evening, a deer crossed the road in front of me. It was an unlikely encounter. I stopped to take a photograph of it just in front of these letter boxes. One December evening, a deer crossed...
From 742.80 CHF AvailableVictor, Los Angeles, California Victor, Los Angeles, California
Victor has lived on the street parallel to mine for decades. He collects classic cars, like this old Mustang as well as 2 others that he keeps covered. Victor has lived on the street...
From 742.80 CHF AvailableGhost Car, Los Angeles, California Ghost Car, Los Angeles, California
I love the fact that Americans put a cover over their cars to protect them. It feeds my imagination and makes them look mysterious. In my head I call them “ghost cars”. I love the fact that Americans put a...
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Shoshone : a diner, a service station. And this enormous billboard. Shoshone : a diner, a service...
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