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Yann Besson aims at reviling the underlying structures of the subjects
he photographs. Plants and more generally natural forms are what he has
been focusing on. “My subjects are an excuse to what I attempt to show: their common fundamental frequency. My aim is to show the essence on my subjects, what’s underneath their obvious forms” |
| Yann has been working towards this aim for now 17 years.
After years of using contemporary made films such as Ilford FP4 and
Orthochromatic films, Yann reached like a “technical dead end”. Purity
can get sterile if shown under the “wrong” light. “I chose tools that lead me where I want to go.” “Handmade objects and natural forms are perfectly imperfect” He therefore chose to use an early photographic process known as the Wet Collodion Process to obtain images altered by random elements brought by the process itself. As indeed we can see in his latest photographs his choice of working tool is crucial to the final rendering of his images. Yann is currently using a 20”/24” ( 50cm/60cm ) plate camera. He coats his 12”/16” (30cm/40cm) glass plate himself in his studio based in south west France. His work has been shown in numerous spaces in UK and France amongst which the London Photographer’s gallery. Yann studied photography at the Central Saint Martin’s University of Fine Art in London. He perfected his printing technique with Ivor Kerslake, head of the photographic department in the British Museum. |
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Yann BESSON