Jean-Marie Guyaux - Crash #54 Lincoln Continental 2003

Jean-Marie Guyaux

JEAN-MARIE GUYAUX PHOTOGRAPHER Born in Belgium, living in New York. Outside of my assignment photography which is full of pretty locations, objects of desire and privileged people, I have always found myself coming across and taking photographs of a world which is full of somewhat not so pretty places and populated by somewhat odd people who can often let their inner and latent anger explode to commit various acts of violence towards each other or their environment. As of late I have felt the need to unveil my fascination with this parallel world where the aggressive and sometimes destructive behavior of people can mirror the one emanating from nature’s most treacherous elements. The result is at times a drastic mutilation of our visual landscape that I find both graphically beautiful and emotionally disturbing. Ironically this metamorphosis enables me to turn fleeting images of fleeting moments about to vanish to oblivion into photo essays portraying various manifestations of violence. The last breath, snapshots before nothingness are my treasures. See it. Shoot it. It’s now or never.