His way of photographing stretch the codes of photojournalism, questioning them, exploring the theatricality in the ordinary. His work tries to understand where the line between reality and representation lies. While most of Alex Majoli’s photographs were taken at daylight he decided to use flash and accessory lighting anyway: his protagonists are immpobilized in a second of their reality, aware of his presence, they are frozen in an almost Caravaggesque light that separates them from everything surrounding them.
Photojournalism carries a question mark, which contemplation leads to an interrogation of its truthfulness.
LE BAL has also invited six artists, among them choreographers, dancers, performers who will base their creations on an image: reflecting and analysing it they will be part of a first edition cycle called Watch and Act.
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