FOTOGRAFYA

Jean Marc Caracci

HOMO URBANUS EUROPEANUS

Press Release

The series "Homo Urbanus Europeanus" is about the Man, in the City, in Europe... let's say about the European "Urban Being".

Its author, the artist photographer Jean Marc Caracci, has covered urban landscapes in the same way an archaeologist observes, looks for, digs up and tries to reconstruct some primitive spaces. He observed the city inhabitants and their environment like a biologist studies within a cell.

Each picture of the series “HUE”, by the accuracy of its framing and its crisp style, sounds like a hymn to the magnificent citizen. Indeed, this character who walks, stops and weaves through the city, often lonely but no less proud and determined, is not insane, but rather has the stature of a conqueror. Moreover, this human presence, this silhouette captured with fineness, always in the right place at the right time, gives the city an unexpected beauty and majesty.

Although primarily an aesthetic work, the "Homo Urbanus Europeanus" project does not hide its political dimension. Indeed, 31 European capitals have been photographed, each in the same style, sober and without any cultural or social visibility, thus favouring the similarity to the difference, the “europeanity” to the diversity. "Homo Urbanus Europeanus" is in a way an artistic tool for uniting European countries... whether they already belong to the European Union or not yet.

Below is the list of the 31 European capitals photographed in the frame of the series :

Bratislava, Riga, Vilnius, Sofia, Madrid, Warsaw, Rome, Ljubljana, Zagreb, Belgrade, Helsinki, Tallinn, Reykjavik, Paris, Brussels, Oslo, Stockholm, Prague, Berlin, Istanbul, Lisbon, Bucharest, Tirana, Budapest, Vienna, Athens, Luxemburg, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, London and Dublin. Istanbul is the only city which is not a capital, but it is nonetheless regarded as the European capital of Turkey.

Four European capitals will be added to the series in 2014 : Sarajevo, Podgorica, Pristina and Skopje.

The exhibition “Homo Urbanus Europeanus" has been held in 17 countries already : Poland, France, Spain, Bulgaria, Germany, United Kingdom, Australia, Estonia, Czech Republic, Finland, Macedonia, China, South Korea, Slovenia, Slovakia, Germany, Ukraine and Croatia.

* All images of the series "Homo Urbanus Europeanus" have been made with a N