After the quake, houses become rubbles, streets become hills and everywhere becomes a ruin.
If I live in Christchurch and still alive, I probably will grab my camera and take lot of photographs with the theme of ruin aesthetics. Just like the French photographers
Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre who are the experts, specifying in the ruin aesthetics of contemporary photography.
"The state of ruin is essentially a temporary situation that happens at
some point, the volatile result of change of era and the fall of empires.
This fragility, the time elapsed but even so running fast, lead us to watch them one very last time :
being dismayed, or admire, making us wondering about the permanence of things.
Photography appeared to us as a modest way
to keep a little bit of this ephemeral state."
From The Artist Statement
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| William Livingstone House©Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre |
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| Michigan Central Station©Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre |
By looking at their photographs, as if, we are being in a zombies movie, like The Legend (Will Smith)
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| ©Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre |
This photo is my favorite, it's so surreal, just like the Dali's surreal clock.
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| Melted clock, Cass ©Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre |
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| ©Dali |
