Chaoscopy by Maude Bardet

By (author): Maude Bardet

Title: Chaoscopy

Subtitle: Street happenstance

Blurb:

Chaoscopy is a street photography project that aims at describing the swirl of impressions that submerges the traveler when reaching a new city for the first time. Flashes of colors, crowds moving chaotically, countless boards in illegible languages – nothing appears recognizable. Like a kaleidoscope, reality Is an inexhaustible image creating instrument. 

When I first discovered street photography, one of the aspects that attracted me most was the lack of necessity for explanation – no imperative to seek meaning, mystery is even desired. The photographer is free to be spontaneous, follow impressions and intuition, and arrange the surrounding mayhem to produce pleasing images outside of any descriptive framework. The belief that as an outsider one will be able to comprehend different cultural environments is in most cases hubris, or at best a mere illusion. 

The images resulting from embracing unintelligibility in turn tell a story about the self: where I found beauty, which people attracted my eyes, which decisive moment grabbed my attention. A sort of mood board emerges out of the confusion that constitutes a better description of myself than any text I could possibly write. 

ISBN: 978-87-7620-637-6

Book language: English

Publishing house: Snap Collective

Website: www.snap-collective.com

Editorial Assistant: Natalia Manole

Designer: Yana Geruk

Published on: in production

Category: Art

Price (€): 129

Keywords: street photography, people, moments, city colors