Unseen Sights
Switzerland
2019
From black and white photos taken during trips to archaeological sites in Turkey, Douglas Mandry reconstructs the images of places he has visited. He colours and assembles his snapshots based on his memories and his interpretation of texts by archaeologists.
Fascinated by the gap between reality and representation, he takes inspiration from archives of oriental landscape photography magazines.
In the late 19th century, postcards, often representing monuments, landscapes or local people, became very popular. Born alongside the emergence of mass tourism, they also became an advertising space. Landscape photographs are therefore often edited to better promote the places they illustrate.
For his part, Douglas Mandry constructs his photos rather than uses them as a mere means of representation of reality.
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About the artist
Born in 1989, Douglas Mandry is a swiss artist working on territory exploration and photography history. He questions his impact on time and memory by creating a dialog between picture build process and nature-human relationship evolution. These experiments try to highlight picture materiality and to probe our certainties toward reality.