Photographer & visual artist — Paris
A practice built between the two-dimensional and the spatial — where photography becomes a tool of construction, deconstruction, and reinvention.
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A photograph is never just a surface.
Florian Schmitt works from personal photographic archives — visual notes taken in the city. He prints, cuts, folds, and assembles them into models, then re-photographs the result — or works further in Photoshop, Illustrator, and other software. The outcome, though resembling a pure digital montage, is always rooted in the handmade.
Paris. The city. Any city - as starting point. Architecture as raw material. Photography as a tool of construction — and deconstruction.
At the core of his practice lies a fundamental tension: photography is flat by nature — space is not. How do we make the two interact? The answer is somewhere between collage and trompe-l'œil, between utopia and dystopia, between what we see and what we think we see.
The camera becomes something else here: not a recording tool, but a visionary device — a way of seeing the city differently.
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