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| Open your eyes again - Raphaël Dallaporta seems to tell us. If the consequence of his subject, landmines, has been overseen in the magazines, kids or adults, legs or arms-less, Raphael Dallaporta tells us to look at it differently, elsewhere. His magnificent still-lifes, showing landmines as jewels, puts in evidence the perversity of human being. How can an engineer, whether he be American, French, Israeli, Chinese, Italian, or Russian, think about aesthetics when creating one of the most horrible weapons. How can he be so perverse when designing these tools like the best of design devices? Who is his foolish enough partner? The weapon dealer, the soldier, or does he just want to give a last pleasure to the one who is by chance going to dig it? Ultimate perversion of human being. This is what this young French photographer is telling us in choosing this very radical approach of shooting this collection of landmines collected by the French army. Raphaël Dallaporta has understood a lot about the relative inefficiency of classic reportage, and the need to inspire from contemporary photography to value his convictions. François Hébel Les Rencontres d’Arles |
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