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Thézy-Glimont / France

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Michel Hirsch Photographer

The world in raw materials,

Photography as a tool,

The photographer in charge of the orchestra,

Aesthetic and testimonial art as a goal.

The photographic work of Michel Hirsch is above all the fruit of passion.

Passion for the world that surrounds us in the first place, forged by thirty years at work. to shape his eye as a building and public works engineer through which his challenges were to transform the space, to model it, to create, to construct.

Passion for photography then, the ultimate art for capturing and transmitting the beauty of life. Ephemeral of a moment, of a light, of a creation of nature or man.

His training, àgrave; the Gobelins Image School in Paris Paris will be the key for the development of a new look at this world, the starting point for a collection of Unique and singular works.

The playing field has not changed; but there where it was a question of transforming it must now be immortalized. The construction left the place to be observation, the desire to model that of sublimating the existing. L’ artistic work replaced the industrial, delivering a subtle testimony of the world around us

Our environment is plural, Michel Hirsch's photographs reflect this.

Nature, as grandiose as it is tiny, has naturally imposed itself on us. him and occupies a special place within his work.

Beauty from a landscape to the detail of an exotic plant through the flight of a butterfly, he finds in photography the ideal and exhilarating way to immortalize, reveal and share these moments of grace ;this ephemeral scene, sublimated by light and punctuated by surprising encounters offered to you. its objective.

But our world is not just nature. How to contemplate it without seeing the imprint that we leave. Far away and yet so close to the tranquility of a grove or the harmony of a pond, are these spaces colonized by man. Industrial sites or abandoned factories, ambivalent witnesses to both the fragility of of nature as well as its vigor regain your rights. Rather than ignoring it, Michel Hirsch places his sensitivity in the spotlight. on this reality offering strong works with varied evocations. Power, harmony and above all poetry emerge as evidence from these captured moments, when time stops, the gaze changes and the apparent ugliness is interpreted with gentleness and emotion.

Sometimes abstract, sometimes raw, his creations reveal our daily lives in new balances offering a vibratory, graphic and colorful representation of our environment.

A subtle invitation to dream, the collection of works by Michel Hirsch establishes between his images and the viewer a strong but soothing resonance in which everyone is free to project themselves according to their sensitivity. and its history.

« We're just passing through. What was done? built will be destroyed, what we steal from nature will be taken back, what has been done in the past. useful will be obsolete. In our constant race forward, let us stop for a moment. Let us contemplate. Let's appreciate it. Let's enjoy. Let's dream. And let us become witnesses to the ephemeral balance that lies before us. It is these plural, sincere, hedonistic emotions that I hope to share with you. through each of my photographs.»

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Michel HIRSCH Author Photographer

Siret: 83777639200016

Exhibitions 2023