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His peculiar way of looking and focus the wild world has provided a place of honor on the podium of the great photographers.
Antoine D'Agata (Marseille, 1961) holds a collection of awards, published books and solo exhibitions.
In issue two years ago the Cannes Film Festival, the Lebanese director Danielle Arbid introduced the film Un homme perdu, based on the life of the French, which he co-wrote.
But the clear sign that your photos have something very special is that D'Agata is one of the few signings in the prestigious and legendary Magnum agency.
In Cartagena, in the festival La Mar de Músicas shows Vortex, a magnificent view of the night, sex, drugs, life ...
Exhibited in the Byzantine walls, is open until August 29
Antoine d'Agata (Marseille in 1961) left France in 1982 and stayed abroad for the next ten years.
During his stay in New York in 1990, developed an interest in studying photography at the International Center of Photography, which were Larry Clark and Nan Goldin from their teachers.
During this time in New York in 1991 - 1992, D'Agata worked as an intern in the editorial department of Magnum, but despite his experience and training in the United States after his return to France in 1993, broke with photographer for four years.
His first book of photographs, seedy and Mala Noche, was published in 1998 and the following year the Gallery Vu began distributing their work.
In 2001, he published and won a Hometown Niépce for young photographers.
Continued to publish regularly: Vortex and Insomnia appeared in 2003, accompanying his 1001 Nuits exhibition, which opened in Paris in September.
Stigma was published in 2004 and said in 2005.
In 2004 D'Agata at Magnum Photos and entered during the same year he made his first film The Belly of the world.
This experience led him to make his first feature Aka Ana, held in Tokyo in 2006.
Since 2005, Antoine d'Agata has no fixed residence, works around the world.
In the words of the author: "The night, sex, walking, ...
and the need to photograph, not a reflexive act, but as a simple setting of ordinary and extreme experiences.
A photographic practice inseparable from a certain way of perceiving the existence, in which the risk, the desire, the unconscious and chance are the essential elements.
No moral attitude, no bias, just the ethics of the statement must, to explore new worlds, share until the end without any precaution.
One step photographic act, to the limits of the disappearance of pleasure and death.
Attempt to establish a nomadic state of the situation, incomplete and partial, systematic and instinctive physical and emotional space where I am the actor completely.
I avoid to define in advance what I'll shoot.
The shots are the result of chance encounters, situations.
The elections, to the extent possible, are unconscious.
But the obsessions are the same: the road, fear, darkness, sex ...
for perhaps the final say nothing more than the simple feeling of existence. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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