Guillaume Hebert

Transient Landscape is a project of 35 photographs taken in May 2015 in Xindian District in New Taipei City. Specifically, it is close to Zhongyang Road that I grabbed my camera to watch, like walkers who stop along the construction site gates, the world changing. Here, as almost everywhere else the construction site is the entertainment world in transformation. The scope of the project and the work which extend over several acres still reveal nothing that will be, but already everywhere the land was returned, dug, moved, destroyed. The fauna and flora have virtually disappeared. This transformation of the landscape is a tragedy for ecology, and yet it is the future we are building. The construction site has become a regular part of our urban landscape, but also a complex challenge of our environment. However, as in my previous series, my gaze is primarily that of an artist for whom the aesthetic remains fundamental. I think photographs of Transient Landscape as painting, at least as Pictorialists thought photography. This is obviously a labor of atmospheric light with a concern for composition and framing that we find in his previous series: Taipei Riverside It is with this pictorial sensibility that I manage to "beautify" almost pathetically an assaulted landscape by urbanism. About me : I am a French photographer living in Taipei since 2012. I studied painting and photography at Ecole Supérieure d'Arts et Médias de Caen/Cherbourg (France) from 1988 to 1995.