Residency in collaboration with Aperture Foundation March – June 2018 Soleil Noir (Black Sun) is a new photographic research project inspired by historical public commissions such as heliographic mission, the DATAR or the ESF. This project aims to observe and analyze the specific terrain of the United States, with its endless…

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Images in this series were taken from buildings in suburban areas, and modeled in 3D by Google Earth users seeking to leave a trace in the digital world. Thibault Brunet collects fragments of this virtual world – shopping centers, public social housing, and seats of large commercial firms – that belong…

The « Territoires Circonscrits » project is a photographic research inspired by public commissions, such as the mission héliographique, DATAR and the FSE. It brought me to the coast of northern France with a three-dimensional scanner to record 360 degrees of the environment, and create an image which is similar to virtual…

The Vice City collection deals with landscape. In the video games, it holds a secondary role, set as a simple background for the plot. The slow motion of my walks led me to explore the spaces that are usually forgotten by players. The pictures show side spaces, barren and industrialized…

All affirm our guesses that the images are of the Middle East and the time period is present day. But despite the clear signposts, Brunet’s pictures turn out to be indefinite and ambiguous. It comes not only as a surprise, but also as an explanation to learn that the ambiguity…