Pano

Bon, une Photo à moi now - une inédite même!

Montalivet, France - 2007.

Pas le temps

Juste deux Photos remarquables de Aaron Hawks.
J'adore.

Pics I Love

Bloqué à Tokyo (pour cause de neige à Paris), je démarre une petite série sur mes Photos préférées.
Il faut juste que je mette la main sur un lien de l'auteur...

Let's start with Newton que j'apprécie autant que je déteste - inexplicable for now.

Helmut Newton.

Yesterday

idem

From the White Room

Rokkasho, Japan - 2010.

Today

Shoot today - parfois je ne peux simplement pas attendre que le temps confirme mes choix.

Going to the White Room

Rokkasho, Japan - 2010.

Reconnaissance

Cette photo a connue un destin particulier: être ma favorite indéniable pour la couverture du livre Distance(s).
Je souhaitais la montrer simplement ici, sans texte, sans tranche ni autres pliures gênantes.
Justice & Reconnaissance.

Montalivet, France - 2009.

Vraiment pas!

J'aurai dû me taire, ne rien dire. 15°C en moins en 24 heures - neige en prime.

Aussi, il y avait longtemps que ces lumières bleues me titillaient les rétines. Il me manquait justement qu'un peu de neige pour une ambiance givrée.

Positiver, souvent, il faut.

Rokkasho, Japan - 2010.

Pas raisonable

Réchauffement ou pas, il fait un temps magnifique, enfin au moins ici.
Plage avec baignade fin Novembre, j'ai pas souvenir de telles conditions dans la bande des 40°N (de latitude). En attendant une claque froide et sèche!

Rokkasho, Japon - (Nov.) 2010!

Photoshop

Il y a des choses que l'on ne peut faire sans outil. L'esprit nous balance ses idées souvent peu pragmatiques, à nous de trouver le moyen, l'astuce pour créer des trucs pareils.

Sur ce coup j'ai décroché - ce sera d'un coup de baguette maudite!

Oh grand PS - crtl-C / crtl-V - pinceau de feu et couche overlay  - je vous implore.
et pouf!

ALOLICRIS III, France - 2010.

« S'il n'y a pas de solution, c'est qu'il n'y a pas de problème. » Les Shadoks.

H or V

Too tired to decide between the Horizontal and the Vertical versions - will see later.
And what's about u?
Let me know.

ALOLICRIS III, France - 2010.

C'est grave Docteur?

I like color more and more. This is a fact.
Something has changed, somewhere in my head, something has reached a threshold and drives me to somewhere else. Let's be honest, I was fighting against this tendency since a while. This strong and tempting wave has reached my nice beach, my sweet and quiet place is now flat clean, the water has blurred sand figures and beliefs. I better get seated in front of such cataclysm, a drop of cold sweat runs along my spine. No misfortune, things must change but sometime they do.

Light fishing

Rokkasho, Japan - 2010.

PS: This November is incredible, snow two days ago and 15°C this evening along the shore.

NoFaceBook

This network is FaceLess!
My account has been erased without any personal contact (email, message, phone call...) nope.

Well, so this blog is the place to get information and see new pics.

No pubic hair - No breast

but I love it!
Perfect for my Face Book Fan page...

Andernos, France - 2009.

Rencontre du 3ème type

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
I love when great souvenirs show up like this and a photograph idea jumps into my brain!

Rokkasho, Japan - 2010.

Last day of the Summer

or I should say "Last Shadow of the Summer"...
Believe it or not - Snow is coming... tomorrow.

Rokkasho, Japan - 2010.

Amazon.com

Distance(s) monograph is now available on AMAZON.COM - Signed copies!

Great for Worldwide Customers (including Japan).

Direct link here

Okinawa, Japan - 2008.

のり

Nori.

I have to check the meaning in Japanese (should be few... or just a name...).

Melissa, Tokyo, Japan - 2010.

L'Ange noir

There are places and lights pushing me to the dark side: Possession, Power, Violence rise up and my Muse becomes my Dark Angel then.

Mutsu, Japan - 2010.

So many why

Why do I am always looking for unexpected things?
Like u coming and starting to dance in front of blurry stars...

Rokkasho, Japan - 2010.

My light

In the middle of turning times, lost in Darkness, I will just simply follow my light.
Have Visions, Photograph some & hold a large Print in my hands - Nothing Else Matters.

Mutsu, Japan - 2010.

No more hits

I have decided to cancel my account on several web sites. I need to get focused & save time.
What is the point to have 300 000 visits in few years (DeviantArt for example), about 1000 comments saying "I like this pic" or "nice breast!" and only 2 interesting exchanges! If one want to see 500 pics of naked girls a day well, I don't want my photographs to be in this bunch - no point.

I have strong believe in my photography work - I put a lot of myself into it  - It became a way-of-living - I enjoy so much doing it and having my prints in my hands after all. Of course, maybe only very few will like it too - this is fine - I fully understand if there are not interesting for most but I understand now that I have run after stupid numbers of hits (or visits, clicks...).

I don't know yet about Facebook... I don't want to spread photos everywhere anymore. My webpage and this blog should be enough...

Melissa, Tokyo, Japan - 2010.

Bright & Dark

Bright, dark and everything in between - Life as it goes.

Saint Brice Courcelles, France - 2006.

Amphitrite

after such Windsurf session, I want to invoke Amphitrite - with all my Love & Respect!

Porquerolles, France - 2010.

PO - I love u!

Windsurf - the lake is fine for training but time-to-time I need to get more, so when the right wind shows up - Pacific Ocean I will show u my love!

Rokkasho, Japan - 2010.

No Nude today... sure later...

Collaborative selection for an Exhibition

--- I need your HELP! ---
for a collaborative preparation of an Exhibition!
If you have 5 mins in front, click here: http://www.christophevermare.com/select/

Thanks!‎

--- J'ai besoin de votre AIDE! ---

pour une préparation collaborative d'une exposition.

Si vous avez 5mins, cliquez ici: http://www.christophevermare.com/select/
Merci!

Porquerolles, France - 2010.

Sick

I am sick, must stay home - viral contamination warning!

Rokkasho, Japan - 2009.

Back Home (again)

I am finally back home after a long and busy week and half out.
Many nice things happened.
I had a nice WE with my sister in Provence,
I met Xerxes (Tendre Bulle) and Chris Saint James (Univers d'Artistes). Two incredibly passionated persons, full of energy - I admire their respective efforts on their everyday life!
Work hard in Madrid (without a single free slot for shooting...) but good progresses have been made.
Had appointments in few FNAC (Paris) for the promotion of Distance(s)
and finally went to theater (with Jérôme and nice friends) before flying the new and impressive A380.
...
but now I want to stay here - tie me please!

Montalivet, France -2010.

Réponses PHOTO (Octobre 2010)

--- French ---
Critique du livre Distance(s) dans Réponses PHOTO n°223 (Octobre 2010) par Caroline Mallet.

Article p.33

Couverture

PS: www.christophevermare.com is back on line

my website is down

bad transfer of Domain Name, should be fixed in few hours...

On my way back

Back to Japan - Home soon...

Rokkasho, Japan - 2010.

Busy week - No Shooting!

A mess.

Rokkasho, Japan - 2010.

Haikyo

I found out, by chance, there is a huge number of abandon building in Japan (cf. here for a gallery in English).
Chika has helped us to find one close by - Thanks - Not usual for me but so interesting!
More to come (if I still love them in a while).

Mutsu, Japan - 2010.

On the road again

Leaving to Europe tomorrow: Marseille / Madrid / Paris and back Home.
Busy days and not one single shooting in front (so far)...

Elwenne, Paris, France - 2009.

Forest Structure

Perpendicular line.

Rokkasho, Japan - 2010.

J'aime les commentaires détaillés!

Montalivet, France - 1999.

In French, extracted from DeviantArt today (translation if I find free time...):

-- xadner ---
Je trouve que la nudité dans ce type de contexte est aux antipodes du sexe brut qu'on développe un peu partout, et j'estime que la société devrait s'en servir pour éduquer les jeunes (et les vieux). Sur ce site, on voit que les stéréotypes ont la vie dure, et que seul un réel effort de désenclaver la nudité noble et naturelle du secteur épouvantable de la pornographie pourra mener à une meilleure appréhension de la vie en général. Et cette éducation est à faire et toujours à refaire, plutôt que de laisser les gens désemparés face à l'internet et ses torrents d'insanités que les gens finissent par prendre pour la normale.

C'est très agréable de naviguer dans votre page, comme une oasis dans le désert affectif




--- Me ---
Vaste sujet que la question de l'éducation surtout lorsqu'elle touche la nudité et le sexe.
Je ne parlerai donc que de moi-même; pour mes enfants cela est déjà plus compliqué...
La seule chose que j'essaie de m'apprendre est d'écouter ma propre sensibilité. C'est pratiquement une mission impossible mais vivre au milieu d'une culture différente, sans ressentir la pression sociale et évidement sans rien comprendre aux émissions TV ou autres flashes de pub aide énormément. Une douce et grisante impression de devenir fou, déconnecté.
Je n'ai rien envie de dire ou même de suggérer (au moins directement) à travers mes photos, je dis juste "voilà ce que j'aime, ce que je trouve intéressant, et vous?" Pour moi, c'est une source de réflexion et de plaisir de mieux me comprendre. Pour les autres, c'est des "informations" au milieu de tant d'autres. Après chacun fait son choix; cherche ce qu'il veut où il veut et comme il veut. Je pense avoir le même respect pour les amateurs de sexe brut que ceux émus par une mèche de cheveux qui vole... du moment qu'ils ont les yeux qui brillent quant ils en parlent!

12 September - already?

+1 more year of life for my biological part!

Anyway, feel still ok - I have my Angel close by.

my Sea Angel

Rokkasho, Japan - 2010.

Update of WWW.CHRISTOPHEVERMARE.COM

New Pics - New info - Check it out!

Do I am doing more and more Portrait & Color?
Looks so.

Andernos, France - 2010.

Back to Rokkasho

Anne is back and she took back possession of the (empty) beach... under the moon.
Hot air / Hot water... 28°C / 24°C... @night!

Rokkasho, Japan - 2010.

end of the Summer

not yet but getting close.

It has been a very intense and great time.
I have worked on the promotion of my new book (by the way available here, FNAC.fr and AMAZON.com so far), signed copies in library, exhibit at Montalivet with 3 others photographers and, of course, shoot a lot!

Rokkasho, Japan - 2010.

Her is a pic of this unexpected exhibition with (from the right) Jock Sturges, Regis Duvignau, Hervé Szydlowski and myself. 4 different vision of Nude photography - Nice "vernissage" -  Special thanks to François Teulié who made it possible!
Too bad I bring only 13x19 prints with me in France!

(from the right) Jock Sturges, Regis Duvignau, Hervé Szydlowski and myself, Montalivet, France - 2010.

Vacations? not yet!

Summer is here.
I am looking for distributors in Japan - France and US for my book so vacations will just wait...
and, anyway, they will be full of loving&thinking&eating&shooting!

Montalivet, France - 2004.

Melissa

Portrait on the roof of the NewSky building.
Again, more to come...

Tokyo, Japan - 2010.

Back Home (and tired)

I am finally back home... and tired.
More soon.

Rokkasho, Japan - 2010.

Production of "Distance(s)"

I have spent a week in Shenzhen (China) following the production of my book.
It was a very great time, intense and interesting to see the conclusion of all the preparation efforts on paper!
Thanks to Joseph J. Pasky (who provided all the printing expertise) and Artron (the printer specialized in Art reproduction), I was impress by the level of quality. First the paper, Stora Enzo 200gsm is thick and nice with a very clean surface. Then, the quality control from the Photo profiles, via the plates productions, to the operator adjustments on press is awesome. They check (with spectrometer) all the starting pages and then one every few hundred along the production - very robust quality management. A minor error has happened during the cover printing and, with such processes, has been detected right away and fix.  I have done the CMYK conversion myself it was such a pleasure to see details on the blacks on very challenging pics. Even the varnishing and lamination processes are perfect! Great work.
At the end, and after only few hours of sleep, they have prepared few book cases and all the signatures for me to validate - here they are!

Shenzhen, China - 2010.

Sexy blossom

Warm enough @Rokkasho.

Rokkasho, Japan - 2010.

Wedding Anniversary

11 years! still alive, still in Love but completely corrupted!
I have given my soul to HEr.

Rokkasho, Japan - 2010.

Feel uncomfortable with Nudes?

so here is a portrait... I am so easy!

あきこさん, Rokkasho - 2009.