{"id":1245,"date":"2011-02-06T23:17:37","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T23:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2011-02-06T23:17:37","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T23:17:37","slug":"paris-shows-tendance-floue-vanessa-winship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1245","title":{"rendered":"Paris Shows: Tendance Floue & Vanessa Winship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tendance Floue <\/strong><\/p>\n

I’ve spent some time searching without success for the first piece that I wrote about the French collective ‘Tendance Floue<\/em>‘, a group of photographers who aim to explore their individual creativity in a dialogue together outside the normal limits of commercial media practice.<\/p>\n

I think it was perhaps around five years ago, when their work was included in the Arles Rencontres<\/em> and also gained an ICP Infinity Award<\/em> that I became aware of the group on-line, and somewhere around the same time I saw a show of their work I think in the fringe festival during the Mois de la photo<\/em> in Paris. Possibly it was in an brick arch under a bridge across the railway lines out of the Gare d’Austerlitz at Les Frigos, but I can’t be sure.<\/p>\n

Tendance Floue (TF) literally means a fuzzy or blurred tendency or trend, and if the work of the photographers in the group does sometimes become a little too experimental for my liking, blur is not necessarily to be taken literally, but more as expressing a spirit of being prepared to explore outside the boundaries of particular\u00a0 conventions – such as that of sharpness – that the commercial practice normally demands.<\/p>\n

I was slightly surprised to learn that TF is celebrating its twentieth anniversary, with the original five photographers now grown to a dozen. And celebrating in some style with shows in five galleries in the Marais in Paris from Feb 5-22nd.<\/p>\n