Tskaltubo (Georgian: წყალტუბო) was a busy spa resort during Soviet times and keeps the memory of regular Stalin visits. Nowadays many of the sanatorium complexes have been re-assigned into housing complexes for refugees that have been displaced from their homes because ethnic conflicts in Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
The abandonned music school // Akhmeta // Georgia
The strange Batumi tower ( former Technological University), one of the Georgia’s tallest building, has a small ferris wheel at its top.
The Halabja chemical attack, also known as the Bloody Friday, was a genocidal massacre against the Kurdish people that took place on March 16, 1988 in the Kurdish city of Halabja.
Sulaymaniyah’s Amna Suraka, AKA Red Prison, nowaday turns into a museum was used by the Mukhabarat ( Iraq’s secret intelligence agency) as a state’s torture and imprisonment site for the Iraq’s Kurdish population
On 21 September 1991, Armenia officially declared its independence from Soviet Union after the failed August coup in Moscow
Monochrome rainbow in the tokyo sky
Поехали!
The only thing that keep me on this earth is the weight of stars above my head
The only thing that keep me on this earth is this place call Home somewhere in the emptiness of space
All day i dream about Yuri
Soviet modernism + Soviet modernism + Soviet brutalism // Georgia
Escape from a HR Giger dream … The space jockey @ Museum of Archaeology // Tbilisi // Georgia
I am pleased to be invited by visionquest to exhibit my serie : 38E parallele nord
Hélène Veilleux “strolls” in one of the most closed city in the world: Pyongyang, North Korea ……..
and she gives back postcard images that look like propaganda posters typical of the communist-era , filled with that hostility typical of that architecture designed to belittle the individual and emphasize the strength of the collective.
The power of the state on public spaces, where architecture becomes a political statement; Pyongyang is the example of a “theater” city where every view and every move are designed and built to serve a “fiction state” and where every citizen has a specific role in this authoritarian “theater”.Not being able to have access to the reality of the country, Hélène Veilleux, decides to concentrate the project of her photographs on a simple idea: what a country decides to show says a lot about what this country wants to hide.
Aided by the toned images through the use of a rosy filter, which gives them a sense of almost exaggerated sweetness, and embellished with clouds that look like cotton candy, these urban landscapes, with no or few people present, make us question what’s behind the long clean boulevards, the great monuments and brand new buildings, the large statues of the always smiling leaders: these are the questions that arise from silent 38E Parallel North.
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Solo & Groups Show
– Echappées Belles 2014 (Paris/France)
– ARCHIFOTO 14 ( International awards of architectural photography )
– Itinérances de Photo Docks Art Fair 2014 (Lyon/France)
– Exposition. Arles OFF 2015 (Arles /France)
– Totally Lost 2016 / 2017 (Italia / Albania)
Interviews
– LMC : https://www.lemauvaiscoton.fr/art/escapade-en-coree-du-nord/
– Funquatre : http://www.funquatre.fr/fr/interviews/photo-darchitecture-helene-veilleux
– Women in photography : http://www.womeninphotography.info/blog/2016/5/6/hlne-veilleux-france