Exposition Fanny Zambaz - Cyanotypes des Alpes
Description
Fanny Zambaz is a professional artist-photographer based in the Valais. Married, mother of two, trained as a laboratory photographer, she also worked for 10 years as a hiking guide and 6 years as an avalanche dog handler for the Valais rescue services before being able to devote herself fully to what she loves: dreaming up the poetry of the animal world, drawing inspiration from it and creating so that she can share it with you...
At the invitation of Galerie Barbara Thollot, and by selecting a series linked to the Alps, the artist invites you to travel and immerse yourself in her world. A bluish world where images dance as if in a painting...
"Always keen to "capture the magic of nature, which seems to be painted with the accord of the sun and the respect of time", as she likes to put it, Fanny draws her inspiration from the living, free and wild world she loves to immerse herself in.
At a time when digital prints dominate the world of images, she has chosen to create against the tide: for nearly 8 years in her studio she has been working with cyanotype, a monochrome negative printing technique dating back to 1842, which she uses to create all her images. Exposed to sunlight and revealed in water, her hand-created images all have a unique character.
"My photography is based on Nature. The one to whom Man owes the most beautiful poems and the most marvellous paintings", she says...
By proposing the marvellous rather than the catastrophic as a starting point, Fanny Zambaz aims to set people's consciences in motion again, and establish a dialogue in the face of the loss of our biodiversity.