Philippe Guionie
Philippe Guionie
In 1883, Jules Vernes released Keraban the Inflexible, the story of a rich Turk merchant who refuses to pay the levee imposed by the Sultan to cross the Bosphorus, resolving to reach Constantinople by going around the Black Sea.
Swimming in the Black Sea is an homage to this novel. Philippe Guionie follows in the footsteps of Kébaran, and offers a contemporary portrait of the region's countries: Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Georgia.Read more
Produced between 2004 and 2012 with the help of a Polaroid, Guionie once again characterizes one of his series with the square format – a format obsessed over by the photographer. Yet he exceptionally frees himself from black and white, favoring the vivid colors of outdated film and reinforcing the connection with the imaginary universe of Jules Verne's novel.
