"Past and Present"
The photo was taken in January 2019 during Dorothea Lange’s exhibition “Politics of Seeing” in Jeu de Paume in Paris. One of the walls of the exhibition was covered by a poster depicting Lange’s photo “unemployed men”. Despite the time difference between the two images, their juxtaposition brought to mind issues of the disparity between wealth and comfort, and poverty and suffering. In the more universal sense, they speak to one’s quality of life, or simply struggle to survive and create a better future.
I slightly moved to get a better composition, lifted my camera and took the photo.
The photo was then converted to b&w and edited in Lightroom and Photoshop.