Mignot

Références

DVD de Fahem, Flamenco Jazz », Zyryab Productions, 2007.  |  Université de Nice - IRIM.  |  Sophia Antipolis : AMADEUS

 "Le photographe du microsme" - Nice-Matin le 13/02/1999,
"Le parcours de cet homme est d'ailleurs intéressant à plus d'un titre puiqu'il est ethnologue et que c'est cette science qui l'a conduit à la photographie" - Nice-matin 20/09/2001
"Mais do que a representação fiel da realidade, os trabalhos de Mignot têm forte expressão plastica (...)Tudo contribui para mostrar, revelar ou, por vezes, apenas lembrar as tantas possibilidades das mãos" - Panorama - Juiz de Fora (Brésil) - 15/04/2004.
 "O talento aliado técnica do fotografo Michel Mignot, vem fazendo da arte, um importante instrumento que revela a beleza de pessoas simples" - Diaro de Borborema - Campina Grande - Paraiba (Brésil) - 13/02/2005.
 "Un regard tout en subtilité posé sur les élèves de la célèbre école de danse cannoise" (Ecole Supérieure de Danse de Cannes Rosella Hightower) - Cannes Soleil n° 81 décembre 2008.
"A l'initiative de Michel Mignot, le Brésil et le développement durable ont été à l'honneur durant une dizaine de jours en avril à Ranguin, grâce à la MJC Centre Social Coeur de Ranguin (Cannes). Objectif : une action humanitaire en faveur d'un village indigène xavante (Etat du Mato Grosso)". Cannes Soleil n°108 mai 2011.
 
Collaboration avec les sociétés suivantes :

La Société AMADEUS - Sophia Antipolis,
La Compagnie CLÉOPATRA - danse orientale - Nice,
La Compagnie ROSES DES SABLES - danses orientale, tribale et bollywood - Nice,
L'ÉCOLE SUPERIEURE DE DANSE de CANNES ROSELLA HIGHTOWER - Cannes,
L'UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE,
ZYRIAB PRODUCTIONS - flamenco-Jazz.
L'Association NAVRASA - danses de l'Inde - Odissi et Bollywood - Grasse.
 L'Association ELLAYALI JAMILA - danse orientale - Le Cannet.
L'Association : EXPRESSIONS XX ET I - Association, créée en 2011, qui regroupe des musiciens de Cannes et de la Côte d'Azur, la plupart étant rattachés au Conservatoire à Rayonnement Départemental de Musique et Théâtre de Cannes et/ou solistes à l'Orchestre Régional de Cannes PACA. Présidente : Marybel Dessagnes, compositrice, professeur au Conservatoire à Rayonnement Départementale de Musique et de Théâtre de Cannes.
 

" I've had some time to look at and assess your imagery, and I wish to offer you my feedback. You have some very strong work in your [lensculture] portfolio. From one perspective, these are rather traditional portraits in terms of the selection of subject matter and also the compositional construction. Of course, you include a number of rather characteristic effects which begin to interestingly unmake or recast the subject. Most of the images contain a sort of pixelated or quasi pixelated aspect to many areas, particularly edge areas. This not only adds a particular and painterly aesthetic to some of the pictures, but it also grounds the photographs in contemporary photographic process. In some ways, perhaps the images are related to glitch culture, although the proliferation of pixelated areas seems rather regimented and prescribed. These effects are perhaps the most compelling in images one, three and seven - here, it is almost as if the surface of the picture is opening up, revealing a void or cavity of sorts. Other pictures feature are far more restrained use of such alterations, as in image one and ten. I think both of these approaches are engaging and are probably necessary. Of course, there's a wide variety of different approaches you can take in utilizing the sort of aesthetic, and I think would be very interesting to deploy this in many different ways across different pictures. In terms of your compositions, all of your pictures are variations upon a traditional portrait headshot - the head of each subject is visible, and sometimes the neck, the shoulders and an arm or two. In addition, the subjects are depicted in roughly the same scale, and almost always in or very near the middle of the picture. I'm curious as to why such consistency in compositional construction is necessary. You did not include a project statement, so accounting for your choice of subject matter, composition and aesthetic would be very welcome. I urge you to take the opportunity to root the viewer in a specific context for your work whenever possible - this will aid viewers in coming to a more fully informed and realized appreciation of your vision. I wish to reiterate that your work is quite commendable overall, and I particularly enjoy the more restrained deployment of pixelated effects. Image one, for example, is one of your finer images. Not only is the pixelated effect rather minimal, in a pleasing way, but there's a very dark tonality to the picture which is far different from most of the other images, and this lends to the image a particular atmosphere that is quite enticing. I wish you the best of luck in progressing with your work.
Lensculture, le 16 juillet 2019"

Lens Culture

Publications

  • Koubalan : coiffures africaines lors de la fête Tabaski" in Carnets de voyages , n°26, pp. 40-47. Mouans Sartoux : éditions pemf, nov 2000.
  •  DVD de FAHEM : Flamenco-Jazz, (3 photos), Zyryab Productions, mai 2007.
  • Dépliants de la compagnie CLEOPATRA (danse orientale), 2008.
  • Le Pays Vençois n°5, novembre 2008 (danse orientale).
  • La Compagnie ROSES des SABLES (danse orientale) : programme de son spectacle du 7 février 2009 au CAL Bon Voyage de Nice.
  • Collaboration à la production de 2 dvd : "Gamal" et "The Bollywood & Tribal Dance Show", Nice, mai 2009 et Mougins, juillet 2009.
  • - Affiche du spectacle "Rouge Brésil" - Théâtre de la Licorne - Cannes - 14/02/2009.
  • - Affiche du récital de Bossa Nova par Fidélia Cassandra - Valbonne le 27/02/2009.
  • - Affiche du concert "émotions brésiliennes", le 2 avril 2011 - MJC Ranguin - Cannes.
  • - Photo d'introduction de la page d'accueil du site de l'Association EXPRESSIONS XX et I : http://expressions-vingt-et-un.fr
  • Wedetetepa, Un village xavante du Cerrado brésilien. Ed. l'Harmattan, Paris 2022     
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