Exhibition in Pyeongchang for the PIPFF
The short film “ Reclaiming the negative” documenting my project Unperson is part of the official selection of the 2021 Pyeonchang Peace film Festival. The photos from my book are also exhibited as part of the festival and the team did a great job et curating the project. Here are some images from the exhibition.
More about this project:
In George Orwell’s 1984, an unperson is someone who has been vaporized, whose record has been erased. Similarly, the North Korean defectors that Tim Franco chose to portray have decided to disappear, fleeing sometimes for ideological reasons and often out of despair. The road to South Korea is dangerous and can take years, across the many different borders with Mongolia, Laos, Thailand and China. The travels of the ones that do are filled with the fear of being arrested and sent back to labor camps. Having arrived in South Korea, they often struggle to find a new identity; Lost between their North Korean past and South Korean future.
To reflect this incredible transition, Tim Franco used an analog material that is not supposed to exist: the negative of a polaroid reveals through a series of chemical purifications, resulting often in something uncertain, dirty and imperfect. Each portrait goes side by side with the story of how and why the subjects came to this radical decision. In order to retrace their trails, Franco travelled to the crossing points, aiming to capture the diversity of landscape that is the background of North Korean defection.
BBC & TV interview & feature for Metamorpolis
This mont I did a couple of TV & Radio interview about the launch of Metamorpolis - check them here
Metamorpolis Book Launch in New York City
Last Wednesday, I had the pleasure to be invited to give a talk at the Asia Society Museum in New York city for the launch of my new book Metamorpolis . The presentation was recorded, you can view it here if you wish to know the stories behind the book and the photos !
If you want to purchase the book or to have information on where you can get it - please check the book official website : Http://www.metamorpolis.com.
Teaser for upcoming book about Chongqing !
Coming soon in march !!!
Exiting news will arrive soon about upcoming book - follow me on twitter or facebook to get the latest news !
Chongqing Project feature in 6 mois & Visa Festival
As I am spending a lot of time working on the book publication of my Chongqing Project, I had the pleasure to see the Chongqing series published in a 22 pages feature in french photographic magazine 6 mois. The series was displayed by the magazine at the Visa pour l'image festival in Perpignan. Please find
More info on the feature here:
Architecture in China | Made By Chinese
Made by Chinese | Available in 2014
In 2011 / 2012, I have spent about a year working with a great team of people on a book about Architecture in China. After more than a year of scanning, editing, writing, the book is finally here and it looks incredible !
Its a double volume box with a first book gathering most of the text and some of the photos and another 400 pages book gathering most of my photo work ! It is with great pleasure that I rediscover the photos. Together with journalist Frederic Edelmann and with Urbanist Jeremie Descamps, we travel most of China, from cities to country side to explore the most unique work of architecture made in China. I would like to thanks the gallery Enrico Navarra and especially Sebastien Morreu who did this project possible.
The book will be available in China first and then France and others. Publishing date and launch event will be announce through my website . Here below a few snaps from inside the book. Most of the photo have been shot in large format slides 4x5 and the real prints is really nice to look at !
Some of the work published in the book can be seen on my website here : http://www.timfranco.com/spaces/
