I would say that the series looks like it was taken in Hong Kong or Manilla.You got it, I've never been to Singapore.But I can say that I've had a glimpse of another world. I've been to Dominic Fernandez'.

Call it Singapore; Hong Kong or Paris, these eight photographs Dominic has sent me over the last year — as we've been developing an electronic trans-oceanic image exchange — gave me another perspective on urban environment. You can see at the first sight that you're not wandering into a classic cityscape anymore, but rather some world where many things occur, where the energy of some architecture, plants and minerals glows in many radiant directions. The infrared film stock used compliments perfectly as way to serve the message.
These images all glow as if we were all born with polarizing contact lenses on.All.

Plants, concrete silos, rocks, or rusted trashes speak out by themselves to us. And actually, why are we taking for granted that the sky should be blue and bright?
That man's work doesn't have a life of their own?
That a place loses all its life once abandoned by man?
The technique is very well handled and it serves us this unique view over contemporary landscapes. The abandon of colours forces you to forget the original rules to approach your environment, and leads you deep into Dominic's world. These photographs work for a deeper artistic experience on approaching our environment.
The matter doesn't stop as just an aesthetic way to make you contemplate on some back door landscapes and other lost old objects.

The real lesson here is to take the time to contemplate in order to explore the felt-but-unseen.

This series of photographs is not only an invite to learn how to feel our environment but also to let it lose and open ourselves to the energies around. They are not just a window to Dominic Fernandez' world and our inner world, but also to the intimate life of the outside world, right there in between nature and the cities.

All we're asking then,is to have a chance to lose our polarizing filters and follow Dominic Fernandez in his walks on the side-ways of our booming societies.

Grégoire Basdevant
Photographer,
Former Editor-in-Chief of COLORS Magazine

singapore

kinosaki,japan

abnayeh,iran

"...the kids had something additional.A chivalrous nature,i would call it. If they obliged to play with children younger than

themselves,which is frequently the case,they sponsor them as no grownup could. What i particularly like about them is

that they play hard and rough: they have a vitality and a sense of play that seems inborn. You will never find them

whimpering and whining. They were little men at five and six ..."

 
excerpt from  Big Sur and The Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch - Henry Miller 1957

costa rica

maramures,romania

kluang,malaysia

platform of pain

within soft spoken breezes lie bitter winds
when in a room made unclean
i cannot but hold onto a broken dream

what is emptiness but a small word
for a chasm wherein
a soul is lost to wander

broken lives held up by broken men
before me and after
a queue of the fucked,damn

i hear a huff
do you hear it too?
the pretty puff

the engine
of the deliverance of good fortune
or the emptiness of sin

homes and hotel rooms
sweethearts and cumshots
the want nots and have nots

beating hearts or just a beating
a quiet weeping
drip the needle sings

so you follow
a forgotten womb
80% volume

and what did we do
where do we go to find each other again
somewhere on this platform of pain

writing by ranjit ghoshal

berlin,germany

thailand

england

christiania,denmark