ENTRY DESCRIPTION
"Eyes Wide Shut" is part of "Urban Myopia" a series of street photographs. In this series I use the dynamic of shadows and lines to make urban familiar subjects more surrealistic. Subjects are isolated from their environment, the images have no social context, with a vanishing point that seems to turn inward toward the viewer. As I was testing different framings and degrees of saturation, I opted for B&W square images that accentuate the feeling of uncertainty and shift of reality, such as we may experience by viewing a "film noir". My compositional choices tend here to cross boundaries between photography, abstract and graphic design.

AUTHOR
Born in Canada, Martine Michaud lives and works in Montreal (Québec), Canada. Since 2007, she has devoted herself to street photography, travel and studio, including portrait, documentary, photo book writing and abstract composites using her own photographic material.

Her photos, signed Mishô, have regularly been on display to the public in several exhibitions, solo and group, in Montreal, Toronto and, more recently, in Barcelona (Spain) and Trieste (Italy). Her most recent solo exhibition was at Galerie Luz in Montreal, in April 2019.

An accomplished writer, she is the author of two photo books : "Bhutan, Lotus&Dragon" 2014, and "Héritières de Bouddha" (Buddha's Heiresses) 2017.

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