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| Philippe Bazin, a photographer was awarded NIEPCE Prize in 1999, in September 1998 he was entertained the whole month in Maubeuge. In continuity with his work carried out for some fifteen years, he took the photographs of the faces of new born babies in Sambre Avenois maternity ward. This new series "born" emphasizes the instant when a human being comes to life, when a new life springs up in the first social relationship assumed by medical men. Philippe Bazin's work keeps on challenging us about our relations with institutions, difference, tolerance, others. …"It is the only series in Philippe Bazin's work in which at every picture taken is exhibited. For some time in september 1998, in Maubeuge, 37 new lives were acknowledged and picked up : "this was". The matern staff of the maternity ward were parties to it and the parents agreed about it. But facing the photographer, each of these thirty seven faces appearing in its singleness makes up a series in which no family reference as well as social or sexual one is possible. The strength here is this proof of the irrepressible will to live asserted individually but shown 37 times."... Christiane Vollaire |
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