Foreword: As I was reading about this artist's work on his website, I noticed an interview excerpt from Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, a graduate student at VCU!
Matthieu Gafsou is a photographer based in Lausanne, Switzerland. For university education, he received a master's degree in history and film aesthetics, philosophy and literature and then went on to study photography at the School of Applied Arts in Vevey. In Gafsou's photography, he choses large scale objects to be his subjects, such as a play ground or a large building in construction. He plays on his interest of architecture and urbanism and shoots subjects relating to those topics. He has a very specific color scheme for each photograph and makes sure to have a reason for keeping everything within the frame.
Matthieu Gafsou, with his large format cameras, focuses a lot on urbanism and the way it affects certain cities. With the rise of all these tall buildings in the middle of destroyed towns, it leads the viewer to think about the cause and effect big ideas have on towns that just need help. I think what Gafsou was trying to get across is the difference between occupied space and busied space and how they can be received by the public in incorrect ways.
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