
Omalo
- Publisher
- The Eyes Publishing
- Year
- 2022
- ISBN
- 979-10-92727-53-1
- Specifications
- 24 x 30 cm
96 pages
Black and white
French and English
Texts by Grégoire Eloy and Sylvain Besson, director of collections at the Musée Nicéphore Niépce
Edition of 400
Published for the Prix Niépce 2021, with the support of Picto Foundation
A set of photograms made during a residency in Georgia. Eloy questions time, memory and the living in that shut-away corner of the Caucasus, while continuing to put to us his own doubts about what an image is.
Alternating the photograms with the scenes that produced them, he unsettles our sense of what an image can be: each exposure yields both a photogram — the flash acting on light-sensitive paper placed in the space — and a view of that arrangement, caught by a camera. Extending the feeling of an image from the inside and from the outside, the design of the volume lays out a path that plays on those different surfaces.
A photogram is an image obtained without a camera, by placing objects on a light-sensitive surface.