AA11, by Gonzalo Bénard
for the “B Shot by a Stranger”
Your plans were just cancelled and you're home alone. Usually you go out and meet friends. Not this evening. You turn on your laptop, put some music on and subconsciously you'll start searching for something easy that will make you feel better. You talk to a stranger in a chat room as if you were meeting him at a bar. You feel safe because you're home. You prepare a drink. A snack. You talk. You vent.
It's so much easier to occasionally vent with a stranger who will not judge you. You know you're being shot. You feel good doing so. You feel that you have someone giving you the attention you need at this moment that you feel lonely. You expose yourself. You play. You laugh. You talk. You pose. Naturally. Being yourself, feeling safe, shot by a stranger. A stranger that you can trust.
"B Shot by a Stranger" is a new photograph's exhibition/book project by Gonzalo Bénard.
(young loners needed)
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It's so much easier to occasionally vent with a stranger who will not judge you. You know you're being shot. You feel good doing so. You feel that you have someone giving you the attention you need at this moment that you feel lonely. You expose yourself. You play. You laugh. You talk. You pose. Naturally. Being yourself, feeling safe, shot by a stranger. A stranger that you can trust.
"B Shot by a Stranger" is a new photograph's exhibition/book project by Gonzalo Bénard.
(young loners needed)
My Main Tumblr
My Facebook • Ask Me
• Submit B Shot by a Stranger
An Encounter with Solitude: An Interview with Gonzalo Bénard
Paris-based artist photographer Gonzalo Bénard, creator of human portraits in the black and in the white, talked with Atelier Balbec about his recently completed satellite-photography experiment, B Shot by a Stranger, in which he voyeuristically shoots young volunteers around the world in their most intimate moments. Here is a look at our interview:
Gonzalo Bénard is one of my favourite contemporary photographers. I particularly like his self-portraits as they are of an intimidating quality, ignoring common beauty ideals and stereotypes. In his recent series of pictures, he focuses on capturing people in their vulnerable, intimate, nude, private, and lonely moments, telling their story from the perspective of a stranger. It’s a beautiful and haunting series.
pure Elitism.
best cultural/art blog I follow, now with B Shot by a Stranger.
“Loneliness does not come from having no people around one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”
— Carl Jung
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