- Cannibalism - Photo

Photographer’s Note

Built in 1919, the Frigo Building, initially a refridgerated warehouse, was occupied some twenty years ago by a population of artists, craftsmen and creators who transformed it into a hundred of workshops, theaters, music and photography studios, giving a new birth to this spot that history had doomed to coldness and boredom...

Today a property of the Paris city Coucil, in the heart of the Paris left bank project, the Frigos remain, as a vestige of a long gone freedom. Surrounded by a huge movie theater complex (MK2 cinemas), the French National Library (Très Grande Bibliothèque), the Batofar (a boat housing a restaurant and a dance floor), it is no longer the only place in this area abandonned for a long time to take up the cultural challenge.

The place is covered with beautiful and very graphical grafittis. Look at this poor artist just about to be devoured by this grafitti...;-)

delnaja, Paolo, dareco, LamCam, chc, ktanska, Dpbours, delkoo has marked this note useful

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delnaja (7871) 2007-09-11 4:08

salut Eric,
une photo qui me plait bien Le fond coloré est très intéressant et la position de l'homme dans la compo bonne.
Choix du titre parfait aussi.
A+
Fred

nunenik (141) 2007-09-11 4:11

Poor poor man!!! :(
But great great photo!
Well seen!!!!
Nuné

bantonbuju (48796) 2007-09-11 4:18

hi eric,
hope you warned the poor guy and at the end he did survive...:-))
perfect exploration of the colours and graphism of the place... like it a lot as it shows us how creatively one can use the "artwork" to the advantage of photography...you have to be patien, and wait for the proper guy to come to the place as a victim...:-))
best wishes, j.

Paolo (40753) 2007-09-11 4:23

Hi Eric, poor guy, ate by and orange giant head. excellent quality, great timing and funny composition.
thansk,ciao

serge44 (271) 2007-09-11 4:43

même si d'habitude j'apprécie peu les tags celui-ci est plutôt bien fait et ton coup d'oeil est un vrai plus qui donne lui une nouvelle dimension

dareco (17104) 2007-09-11 5:55

I'm always facinated by grafitti art, although I don't like to see it on the very ancient old buildings. This is really an impressive picture with an interesting title. Great colors, very vivid. TFS

MKING (3050) 2007-09-11 6:28

Haha, nicely spotted and framed, that's a whole explosion of colour there.

LamCam (3603) 2007-09-11 8:21

Hello Eric
Oh Yes! very well seen.
Very good that the man is not dressed in bright colours. The contrast between him - very sober - and the exuberant man-eating graffiti is very enjoyable.
Best Wishes Maggie

PixelTerror (86797) 2007-09-11 9:44

Salut Eric,
Bien vu le coup d'oeil, le timing est juste excellent, et cette photo illustre comment presenter qqch d'interessant avec un decor ou c'etait pas gagne a priori !
Bonne soiree JY

Sekhmet73 (4133) 2007-09-11 9:47

.... is it my eyes or the eater is very similar to the eaten?
You were really at the good place at the right time!
Sabrina

chc (1468) 2007-09-11 11:43

quel punch ! Cela me plaît beaucoup. J'en suis tout... mordu !
christophe

bibiweb (8) 2007-09-11 12:50

Salut Eric,
Quel coup d'oeil et surtout quel rapidité au déclenchement pour cadrer cette image. Moi qui me trouvait avec toi, je n'ai même pas remarquer cette mise en scène cocasse. Par contre j'en ai immortaliser une autre peu de temps après, que je t'ai mis en WS! ;o)
Bizzzz
Bibi

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ALSOM (6616) 2007-09-11 12:58

A croire que c'est son propre portrait qu'on retrouve sur le mur ... Un contraste d'expressions manifestes, sa haine semble s'être apaisée avec l'âge ...

ktanska (16695) 2007-09-11 22:53

Hi Eric,
Colourful scene and creative use of graffiti. Interesting place, seems like a forgotten corner but nearby more busy area, maybe used as a shortcut by many.
Kari

Dpbours (220) 2007-09-12 2:50

Hi Eric,

Wow, the colours of the grafitti just jumping out of my screen! Great choice with your DoF and compo you made here. Very nice and graphical!

Greetings,
Dennis

faubry (32415) 2007-09-12 12:43

ohhhhhhhhh vu la tete du gars il n est pas ters a l aise, trop drole cette photo, il fallait le voir et tu l as vu.. amusante image
a +++ bises

delkoo (34726) 2007-09-15 8:44

bonjour Eric,
le fort impact des couleurs et la mise en scene fonctionnent bien ici, positionnement impeccable et realisation parfaite.

didier

kinginexile (2440) 2007-09-21 23:02

Bien joue Eric, je rigole a penser qu' il aurait pu a ce moment exact, se baisser pour rattacher ses lacets!

un peu ose de ma part, mais on dirait que la fille, elle, vise le bas du corps.....Que des coups de gueules, cette photo! :-)

marietom (32076) 2007-11-01 5:13

Bonjour Eric,

Un de mes lieux favoris de Paris...
Superbement réalisée, ton image !
Marie

nbj (1871) 2008-01-13 11:19

hi there, always a pleasure going through your gallery. it is quite inspiring, and i like finding pictures, like this one, that i can look at for minutes, discovering all the little details. anyway, really good timing, i love the colors, the two facial expressions (or three, if counting the small graffiti on the neck of the carnivore guy on the wall...), and well, i like all of it.

Photo Information

Copyright: Eric LE PARC (eleparc) (24059)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-09-07
Categories: Humorous
Camera: Nikon D70, Nikkor 12-24mm f/4G
Exposure: f/4, 1/500 seconds
More Photo Info: view
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Theme(s): Paris through my eyes, THE WALL, Art on Walls, graffiti, graffiti world [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2007-09-11 4:04