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1999

Patrick Messina

Photography

125 x 100 cm

Patrick Messina is a French photographer who at the beginning of his career shot portraits of celebrities for newpapers or magazines such as Libération, Les Inrockuptibles or Télérama. Through this work he perfected what became his style.
Patrick Messina uses a view camera, often used forarchitectural photography, which permits him to shoot, without special effects, blurriness and depth, using different levels of sharpness. This technique allows him to work in detail on the nuances of color in the images and to offer, as a painter, an individual, personal interpretation of reality.
Patrick Messina
France
Born in 1967
Born in Paris.
Lives and works in Paris.

Patrick Messina was born in 1967 in Paris. After graduating from the École Louis Lumière, he snapped his first photographs for Libération, Télérama and Les Inrockuptibles. Press, advertising, business communication, Patrick Messina has made his mark in various image media. All of the references that accompany our over-mediatised daily lives are placed under a magnifying glass, emphasised, and questioned all at once. His recent solo works, in the field of urban landscapes such as New York, Hong Kong, Paris, or in rural areas like Iceland, Côteaux du Languedoc and even the Gulf of Morbihan have made Messina known as an artist who excels at conveying an intimate experience of spaces and giving them a reading that renews our thoughts on them.

“[PatrickMessina's] images dwell on the infinitely small or dive into the infinitelylarge. Reality, normally near and clear, is modified in favour of an etherealvision; its meaning balances in the emotional. The images are not properlytranslated: lost in one's feelings, the onlooker no longer understands theimage. In the words of Sofia Coppola, it is “Lost in Translation.” In an etymologicalsense, Messina's photographs could be called sublime: they play withboundaries, perplexing our interpretation and dismissing our rationality.”

EliseLegris-Heinrich

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