EDDY DE AZEVEDO

Eddy De Azevedo is a French photographer who is very much inspired by

Mark Rothko and 1950s Colour Field paintings. He has created a series

of photographic images using everyday objects, such as lighters,

coloured paper, book spines and fabrics. Eddy usually categorizes his

photographs by the materials that he used: “Office” for stacked paper,

“Dressings” for fabrics, “Library” for books, and “Walking my dog” for

objects he’s found on the streets. By changing the scale of the depicted

objects, and through the uniformity of colour, the photographer seeks

to create a visual effect, where the viewer forgets about the object and

focuses on the colour instead – also one of the aspirations of Colour

Field painters. His work would come under the abstract category of

photography.

You can see in Eddy De Azevedo’s

photographs that he clearly uses layers

within them – for example, his stacks of

paper and fabrics. He also frames all of

his pictures into a shape, where the

objects within them are fitted into the

frame of the camera perfectly.

I personally really like his photographs

and think they are very interesting,

mostly due to the colour schemes used

and the layers that are almost always

present in them.

ABSTRACT PHOTOGRAPHY

There is no standard definition of abstract photography. Actually, it

is not easy to create a clear-cut definition of an abstract

concept. Abstract photography can produce very dramatic

images - it relies on our more primal sense of form, colour, and

curves than it does on detail. The problem is that most

photographers tend to think in terms of detail when evaluating

photographic opportunities. However, it takes a different way of

looking at our world to perceive the abstract photography

opportunities that surround us.

OWN EXAMPLES

I believe that my own interpretations

of Eddy De Azevedo’s work contains

layers and colours that make the

photographs stand out. I think that my

responses turned out well and I like

them because they look reasonably

like De Azevedo’s work. They also

reflect and show his style of work

quite well.