Abstrakt Zermatt, 2013
Abstrakt Zermatt is a photographic journey through the Swiss Alps with the city of Zermatt at the foot of the Matterhorn as its base camp. A “homeland” for the Swiss Aline Diepois, the place of childhood, of the family, a “home” which with time and photographic work has become a “home” for us. The series has the colour of memory, of those we invent by dint of dreaming, as if time had been transformed into space.
To take these shots in the high mountains, the photographers had two cameras made from old Polaroid cameras from the 1950s, light and foldable 4 x 5 cameras. Apart from their lightness, they have the advantage, in our eyes, of being rather imperfect. Each of these cases reacts differently to the film shot. There are light entries in the bellows which burn the film, and over or under exposure creating “ghosts” or chromatic aberrations which we particularly like.
The moment of the photo, the choice of the frame are common circumstances and an art of counter-field, of counter-point.
Often, one of us stops on the way, because he sees something, to light a cigarette, to take off or put on a jumper, etc. The other one waits for him and starts looking, attention floating. It is often in these small interruptions, in this vacancy, that a photo appears. Others arrive by deduction: one frames something, the other looks elsewhere, on the opposite, next to it…
You enter Abstrakt Zermatt with the feeling of descending into the depths of a dream, of those who remind you of the strangeness of the world.
A rare experience.
Olivier Lebé
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