Lyon, Born in France, Thomas Blancard A prize -winning artist is a worldwide praise, many exhibitions, and recognized to mesmerize chemistry and art for their powerful visual functions.
Speak with Petpixel Regarding their latest project, Thomas Blancard The name does not describe himself as a photographer or videographer, but a “visual alchemist”, which predicts photography and video of her use to documents the fragments of organic and experimental arts often created through the use of chemical or mineral reactions. Their attractive time are complex, ideas-out projects, which have been made for a long time using pigments, ink, gold powder and metals, there is no artificial intelligence, but in every sense it is difficult to pin mixed with mixed media, one-word title.
Visual alchemy
“I really do not consider myself a photographer in the classical sense of the word. The path of my career is built around the video, with a charm for movement and slow changes. Inspire me that the ability of images is to reveal the invisible phenomenon to the naked eyes,” Blancard describes.
“Although in my background video, I use photography as a tool to catch micro-events. Slow movement, chemical reactions. What attracts me is the time passes, invisible things for naked eyes, and how to reveal them through images,” they say.
The blanchard has a huge body of the work documenting its chemical experiments, often the macro looks difficult details to see with intimate naked eyes. His projects have been commissioned and depicted by brands from Apple to Sony, Dolby Laboratories, LG, Huawei, and Samsung with exhibitions around the world, including Casablanca Bienle of Contemporary Arts, Artechhouse Art Center in Washington DC, Artechhouse Art Center, New York Spring Studio, and Contemporary Arts.
Crystal
Blancard’s newest project is suitable title. CrystalThe “around the crystallization process of the potassium phosphate” duly seven months of exploration, Blancard described taking more than 150,000 photos, for a minute, a constant time, for a continuous timelaps, which documentes the slow changes of mesmerizing and blooming crystal formation.
Therefore, timelps and stils that include them are methods through which blanchard mixes its experimental science, chemistry and art.
“The one who inspires me is the ability of images, which is to reveal the invisible phenomenon to the naked eye. Development of a material, the birth of a texture, an incompatible change that becomes luxurious when playing with time,” is a description of the blanchard. “I started using photography as a tool to make timelps, not to freeze a moment, but still to highlight movement through a series of images.
‘This is always thought and eye that creates image’
Asked how gear affects their work, Blancard says that the most important part is a good macro lens and a camera that is capable of shooting in 8K. However, he remembers that, at the beginning of his career, he used to create clips and videos with the most underdeveloped devices, whatever he had, and a basic kit does not stop him from making it.
He uses a canon R5, 5DSR and a 100 mm macro lens on his time -time and still photos. When he is not making timelps, but a real -time video, he uses a red helium 8K, which he loves by his extraordinary image quality and flexibility or gives flexibility to slow down the footage.
“These are powerful tools, but at the end of the day, it is always thought and eye that creates image.”
‘Nature, Science and Chemistry’
Blanched is inspired by nature, which is to imagine emotional, biological and invited that invites the audience to a thoughtful place.
“I am especially ready to bloom of nature, those moments when something slowly born, unfolds or converted. Capturing these delicate, often the next moment is in the heart of my work. My creative process is influenced by nature, science and chemistry, but also with emotions. I have no script.
Their final pieces are obtained without a certain workflow, but an idea such as a visible event or material that inspires him from a flower to a texture or ink, with which he uses. In his studio, he loses himself in the process, which he operates from solo to up, lighting and material. The overall composition is a mixture of experience as well as an element of randomness that leads to happy accidents. Therefore, he is not just afraid of failing that something beautiful is discovered on the way.
“I find most of the most satisfying when everything falls into place, framing, sharpness, movement … especially in a process uncertain as capillary crystallization,” Blanchard explains. “Very often, the shots are bottled, the crystal falls out of the frame or not move as I had estimated. There is a real element of random. With the capillary, the crystal is absorbed by the material, then they get out a little more, sometimes they move forward in the fructals.
“When everything works, when the image is well formed, sharp, and the movement of the crystal is liquid and blind, it is a real moment of happiness. What do I like when I get unexpected.”
Sometimes, that unexpectedness faces challenges that he uses his experience and does an eye eager to remove.
‘Unstable procedures’ lead to ‘happy accidents’
Blancard described an example when unexpectedness resulted in a great result as a result of unexpectedness.
“I often work with very unstable processes, such as capillary crystallization, or reactions between ink, paint and organic materials. One of the biggest challenges is that I can never fully predict what is going to happen. The air extraction from the housing was from the front, and this simple air flow interrupted my mixture.
Being capable of adjusting and saving the shoot, sometimes happy accidents become photo shoots, such as shown and described image.
“During my tests, I noticed that potassium phosphate-sorting solution, in some cases, can overflow the Petri dish and spread on the black background. For this specific shot, I estimated this phenomenon and not everything in my power as outside the dish. We do.
“I also like other images that follow, but it is a different feeling. I find them more reflective, remind me of coral or sea shore. There is a kind of organic lethargy for this series that I find very poetic.”
Blancard says that they have to “learn by doing” and spend a lot of time on their projects, it is revealed what works and does not. Through years, they have developed their style of top-down view on organic structures, often to use color completely black and white, especially for their crystallization projects, which are the most delicate and textured.
‘I still have a lot’
Despite its broad portfolio and years of experience, Blancard has still described himself as learning. Asked what is next, he says that there are many experiments to come, and most, he is not afraid of failing to find something beautiful.
He says, “I still have a lot. I am expecting to experiment with other types of crystallization, especially with ammonium chloride, which can give very different and interesting visual results,” they say.
“At the same time, I am thinking about it on pure photography, on more stable projects, especially around nature, but with etipical lighting, I am still thinking about it, this is a transitional stage, where I am looking to renewed my practice while maintaining my sensitivity to materials, textures and organic responses.”
Thomas Blancard work can be found on them Website, InstagramAnd ViimoWhere he shares his full timeleps projects.
Image Credit: Thomas Blancard
