Tiane Doan na Champassak: Dick 999

Tiane Doan na Champassak (born August 19, 1973) is a French artist of Asian descent best known for his photo-based works and artists' books.After a prolific collaboration as a photographer with Agence Vu during which he was awarded a World Press Photo,a Prix Roger Pic, and grants from the Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation and Villa Medici, Doan na Champassak shifted his attention to photography as a contemporary art form.

India –   

THIS STORY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT

Dick 999 published by RVB Books is a collection of anonymous photographs which Photography feature – Tiane Doan na Champassak found posted on the blogs and websites of the Indian subcontinent’s exhibitionists and swingers. He collected the images posted by men in which we see their wives or partners exposed but in which the men took great care to cover up with Photoshop any clues as to their own identity. The artist analysed and extracted the pictures and drawings, which exhibitionists use to cover themselves, and he presented those on their own, without context. By doing so he demonstrated the ambiguity of what is recovered and what is masked, while simultaneously revealing the diversity of motifs and shapes the extracted images can take.

 

Screen Shot 2014-07-30 at 8.48.08 PM

Related Posts

Yoshinori Mizutani: Tokyo Parrots

Japan –   When I saw the hordes of parrots of several hundred birds, I was very scared, it was like, I ...

Helio Leon Purple Room

Helio Leon: “The Purple Room” – Reliving Istanbul Memories

Turkey –                               THIS STORY CONTAINS ...

First Photobook Award Winner: Hidden Islam

France –  The entry to this years’s Award were rifle with gatefolds and Hidden Islam uses this device on every ...

Open Books: Post-War Artist Books at Paris Photo 2014

France –  Each one of the books presented here has been created with the urge to formulate a unique artistic ...

Colin Pantall on Kevin Griffin’s Last Man Standing

Ireland –  Isolated islands off the Irish coast? There are a few that come to mind. Craggy Island is one ...

Kate Nolan: Neither

Ireland –  Neither is an exploration into the dreams and fears of young women in Kaliningrad – an isolated Russian region ...

Pierfrancesco Celada: Hitoride (Literally: By yourself, Alone)

Japan – During a brief visit to Japan in 2009 I was soon fascinated by the isolation and loneliness I ...

Tiago Casanova: “The Pearl of Atlantic” – Subjective Relationship Between Beauty and Uglyness

Portugal –  Pearl* – “Hard object that grows around a grain of sand or other foreign matter as a defensive ...

Ernesto Bazan : A Sicilian Revelation

Mexico – With an eclectic body of enriching, honest and deeply committed work, one can only admire the talent that ...