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PODCAST: Interview with Lionel Antoni // Festival L'Oeil Urbain
29 June 2021
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In the UPP interviews, we have the pleasure of welcoming photographer Lionel Antoni, who is also in charge of programming for the "L'Oeil Urbain" Festival, which runs from May 27 to July 4, 2021 in Corbeil Essonne.
This year marks the 9th edition of the Festival. After Africa, the theme for 2021 is France. The photographers on show draw up a map of known and visible territories, but also of a France on the bangs, which they force us not to look away from. Following the example of Jérôme Fourquet's book "L'Archipel Français", the photographers report on this metamorphosis and the creation of "archipelagos" that ignore each other. Each in his own way attempts to answer the question: Where are we going?
Lionel Antoni has been a photographer for 25 years. Although he began his career in advertising, it was news reporting, the press and documentary photography that took over. It was in Africa, in the 1990s, that he began his first long-haul assignments. For ten years, he criss-crossed the continent. He published three books (Faso nord-sud, Confidence d'Afrique, Djéol-Mauritanie) and produced numerous exhibitions (L'âme en trance, Djéol-Mauritanie, Made in Africa, etc.).
At the same time, he continues to work in the political and social field, relentlessly seeking to "document", while maintaining a subtle balance between journalism and aesthetics. Passionate about custom culture, it was under the pseudonym "Hoppie and the lens rider" that he began to take an interest in questions of group, clan and brotherhood. Three years ago, he came across a custom bike by chance, and the subject suddenly took shape. Brothers of cycle is the first opus in his work on custom bikes and BCs Lionel Antoni is already thinking about what's next, and plans to continue his work in Russia, Japan and Hawaii.
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