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Ben Sasseville
In the digital age where everyone can claim to be a photographer, Ben Sasseville has chosen a different path. In a frantic time where images arise and disappear in record time, abandoned on a hard disk or drowned in social networks, Sasseville is sailing against the current. Travelling worldwide with its heavy equipment came from another age, he captures the beauty on film, brings back its precious rolls in his lab and spends sleepless nights under the amber light to bring out the trapped images. Like an alchemist, he prepares his magic mixtures and gives life to this light by releasing on paper. His unique works cannot be copied, pasted or shared to infinity. They are created to be admired without network, without intermediaries, directly with one's eyes. Bet that in 100 years, when USB sticks and hard drives have disappeared with their memories or will become incompatible, it will remain in a few drawers and attics, film photographs of Ben Sasseville.
Ben Sasseville was born in Montreal in 1967. This multidisciplinary artistist became well known in the early 2000's as a french songwriter-performer in bars, theatres and festivals all over Quebec. Nostalgic for his photography studies at the College du Vieux-Montreal in the mid- 80s , he decided in 2014 to revive the passion of his youth: film photorgaphy. He managed to get vintage Nikon and Hasselblad cameras and lenses , and desing his own darkroom. Since then, all his free time is spent capturing and processing images. His passion becomes an excuse to travel the planet and go hunting , camera around the neck as often as possible . On October 4 to 10 2016 Ben Sasseville will present its first photography exhibition at the Bookstore and Gallery Bonheur d'Occasion in Montreal.
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