Walking the famous “Hamilton road” .
Between 1928 and 1932 Archie Hamilton, an engineer from New Zealand, built strategic road across Iraqi Kurdistan, which ran from Arbil to the Iranian border. Hamilton hoped the road would unite the local tribes of the area and to bring outside influence in that isolated region.
Sampson House // Southbank // London // Uk // Architect : Fitzroy Robinson & Partners
London good old Concrete chunk …
Distopian Tirana
“4 Ever Green” Tower // Tirana // Albania // Architects Studio Archea
Scars of Yugoslavia’s NATO bombing – the Ministry of Defense building bombed on 30 April 1999 // Belgrade // Serbia
Sarajevo 84
The remains of Sarajevo’s 1984 Winter Olympics Bobsleigh and Luge track , once part of the battlegrounds of the Bosnian War, are now reclaim by Nature.
Fear and loathing in Tirana.
The surreal pyramid-shaped monment , Formerly known as the “Enver Hoxha Museum”, was designed by the daughter and son-in-law of the late communist leader Enver Hoxha a museum about his legacy.
During the Bosnian War the city of Sarajevo was subjected to the longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare ( lasting 1425 days – beginning in April 1992 / 1995 ) ,
The 15th century fortress of Bijela Tabija with this incredible overlooking view of the whole area made it an unfortunate strategic point in the shelling process of the martyr city by the army of Republika Srpska.
Mosque nasir ol Molk // Shiraz // Iran
Light will someday split you open …
Those Iranian Nights // Ispahan // Iran
La Radieuse Cité by Le Corbusier // Marseille // France
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)
– ARTEFIERA Bologna 2018 ( Bologna / Italia )
– Odessa // Batumi Photo Days Festival 2018 ( Odessa / Ukraine )
– Festival Panoràmic 2019 ( Granollers / Spain)
Interviews & Publications
– LaSpirale.org – Un Ezine pour les Mutants Digitaux : HÉLÈNE VEILLEUX « LA DENT DE L’OEIL » (laspirale.org)
– 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
and some terrible one …
– Daily Mail : Chernobyl nuclear disaster: Eerie photographs by Helene Veilleux | Daily Mail Online
Біографія
Народилася 1978 року, довгий час жила і працювала в Ліоні, Франція. Зараз мешкає у Тбілісі, Грузія. У своїх роботах досліджує гетеротопічні простори, від дивної Північної Кореї до радіоактивних руїн Чорнобиля.
