Yannick FRAUD

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obsessive wall photographer

WALKING THROUGH THE STREETS…

For me, "travel" has always been synonymous with "metropolis" and "emotions". Urban traveler, I like to get lost in cities in order to be receptive to the emotions they suggest to me.

At first, I will discover the obligatory places, the classic tourist routes. Once this step has been taken, I let myself be caught up in the towns which begin to speak to me, to send back to me feelings which I pick up by chance during my walks, when I savor the fact of being completely lost and without landmarks.

From these moments, the seduction takes place: the city lets itself be discovered and I manage, through spaces neglected by passers-by, to have a personal and intimate perception of it:
- the faces on the walls stare at me, avoid me and attract me,
- the sections of walls seem to me like reminiscences of works by Basquiat, Rauschenberg, Rothko, Twombly, Warhol, etc.... that I have been able to admire in museums or exhibitions.
Art is in the street, you just have to open your eyes, listen to your emotions and be attentive because all this has a limited lifespan.
Time does its job, all it takes is a shower or a brushstroke for everything to disappear.
This is precisely what I like to capture: an ephemeral trace, a fleeting emotion, a moment frozen forever on paper.

And for years, each time I returned from a trip, I shared with my loved ones the emotions that I had been able to feel through my photos.
“Exhibiting” had never been one of my projects.
All this is due to chance, just like the pictures I take! It just took someone coming to my house in Paris and stopping in front of some photos hanging on the living room wall, for it all to start!
It was in 2003, a "Friday the 13th"!

Yannick FRAUD