"Every morning before sunrise, fishermen gather on the dock. Beneath the violet and magenta hues of the emerging light, cut by the pale glare of floodlights, gestures slow, silhouettes sharpen. Fluorescent shapes in the night. Stray dogs waiting. Dark, still water. The ordinary takes on a strange weight. Nothing is staged. Yet something in these images belongs to another world:"
"His work reflects on photography as an inherited surface, examining how images continue to operate as their conditions of legibility weaken. "Skywalkers" was made at dawn on the atoll of Mataiva-a coral ring of three hundred inhabitants, three hundred kilometers northeast of Tahiti: a visual territory closer to science fiction than to documentary, where a familiar ritual begins to resemble a film scene. 'Skywalkers' inhabits this threshold, where reality starts to look like its own fiction."
Olivier Lavenac produced a series of otherworldly images photographed at dawn on the atoll of Mataiva, a coral ring of three hundred inhabitants located three hundred kilometers northeast of Tahiti. Fishermen gather on the dock before sunrise beneath violet and magenta hues and the pale glare of floodlights; gestures slow and silhouettes sharpen. Fluorescent shapes, stray dogs, and dark still water render ordinary rituals with strange weight. The images remain unstaged and occupy a liminal visual territory between documentary and science fiction, where familiar ritual begins to resemble a cinematic scene and reality appears fictional.
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