, photographer David Luraschi explores human intimacy and untamed nature David Luraschi’s subjects never face the camera. But anonymity, if anything, only intensifies the intimacy. – which is now a book published by Loose Joints – a pair of nude bodies fuse, overlap and interlock – we are voyeurs to this carefully choreographed dance, which is at once uncomfortable, sensual and electric. , there is a melancholy to be found which douses the pair in a charming bleakness.
For the series, shot over two days, the French-American photographer took to the windswept Provençal wetlands of the Camargue: Europe’s largest river delta, to the west of Marseille and south of. This is a region of vast salt flats, untamed nature and uninhabited wildness. It is expansive and desolate, furnished only with apocryphal myths, vagabond settlers, flamingoes and wild horses.
Aside from the introduction of unexpected props – a shabby chair and a parasol – the couple are alone with their environment, which eventually swallows them. is the result of a collaboration and friendship – between Luraschi, fashion designer Simon Porte Jacquemus, who commissioned the work, and dancers Claire Tran and Paul Girard. It was initially conceived as a photo story for, but has been revisited as a creation in its own right by Sarah Piegay Espenon and Lewis Chaplin of Loose Joints.
The pace of this series is glacial, the landscape hypnotic, the couple at one with each other, and their environment. Their anonymity keeps us guessing, but their intimacy keeps them human. §
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