Loïc Seguin
‘Half-Light’
by Loïc Seguin, published by Void.
“The harsh flash is unapologetic and exposes all irregularities, thus echoing the unpolished faces that serve as metaphoric expression of their crude urban environment.”
GUP Magazine
Half-Light
‘Half-Light’ is made out of open-hearted meetings between Loïc and the people he relates to in his “real” life. There’s no artist pretension. Nor any voyeuristic need of representing people from out of their universe. His photograph is genuine, direct, simple. No gimmicks.
The way Seguin unveils people from Belleville and Place des Fêtes is unique. It could only have been done by an insider. This is its strength: simplicity and straightforwardness. The unpretentious portraits trigger our curiosity – Who are those people? Where do they come from? How did they let the photographer come that close? That intimate?
“These photographs were taken in Paris during a period of mourning. I felt I had to look at people facing me. Without any social mask.”
Loïc Seguin
The obsession. The rigorous and constant practice. The stable high quality of his images, despite the elevated quantity. Those are the credentials that Seguin presents on his first book, published by Void.
The Collector’s Edition
Limited Edition of 10
Sold out from the publisher
Loïc Seguin
Loïc Seguin is a Capitaine de Police in Paris. Profession he has for most of his life. His routine is far from the art scene. Loïc is on the streets. With people. He is not thinking too much about Wittgenstein or how is the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction.
Out of passion, Seguin learned photography by himself. Un-institutional and self-tough, he joins the photo universe through a naïve and intuitive way. All the background on his life is clearly (and honestly) represented on his first monograph: ‘Half-Light’.
13 x 19,5 cm
176 pages
750 copies
Tipped in photograph on hardcover
ISBN 978-618-84341-2-7
Half-Light
Collector’s Edition
The trade edition book
In a hardbound slipcase
Special leporello artist book with collages of 37 images from a single roll of film
+ 2 signed fine art prints, in an edition of 10 + 2 A.P.s.
Print size: 12 x 17,5 cm
Limited edition of 10
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GUP Magazine – Issue #63 – “Portraits of Life”
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ENGLAND, Picnic
GEORGIA, Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum
GERMANY, The Photobook Museum
GREECE, Med Photo Fest
GREECE, National Library of Greece
GREECE, Photometria Photography Center
GREECE, Void
IRELAND, The Library Project
LATVIA, ISSP
PORTUGAL, Narrativa
ROMANIA, Photo Romania Festival at Grain Lab
USA, MoMA Library
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Photograph: Loïc Seguin
Design: João Linneu
Edit: Myrto Steirou
Printing: MAS Matbaa
Binding: MAS Matbaa
Language: English
Loïc Seguin © for the photographs
Void © for this edition