Jean-Philippe Deugnier
Jean-Philippe Deugnier
Jean-Philippe Deugnier

Jean-Philippe Deugnier
I work on memory, resilience, cognition and emotions.
It is, trough a specific work on the image, to send a stimulus to the viewer, who takes the image for him, appropriates it and in a way, ends the story.
I am inspired by Optical Art, developed in the 1960s, especially the notion of residual-images, but adapted to photography.
I often include in my images, curves or mathematical formulas, speaking about the ambivalence between materialism and emotion.
Passionate about photography, I use all the techniques, both post-production and printing support. I like his simplicity and his direct speech.
I use either my own shots of objects, often quite common, or pictures on plates of glass, free of rights (portraits, family photos, handwritten letters) dating from the nineteenth to twentieth century, that I scan and rework in chromatic contrast, allowing an optical game and forcing an increased observation of the image.
So, I push the viewer to make an emotional and introspective journey.
32/36 allée de Saint Cucufa
F-92420 Vaucresson
jpdeugnier@imagesetpatrimoine.com