Biographie
Thomas Chene is a young photographer who studied history and the history of Art before joining the Louvre school (2007 – 2009) to study the history of cinema. He has recently gained his diploma from the Gobelins school, Paris (2009 – 2011 promotion)
Présentation
“The town was full of people looking for the man or the woman who could save them” Throughout the long photographic voyage that took him across the USA, from Montana to Louisiana, Thomas Chene’s work echoes this extract of Don DeLillo’s Americana. These portraits and landscapes, made with a plate camera, try to reconstitute the feeling of transience and indecision met with in this America of small towns and ordinary people. The moments chosen are those in which the solitude, confusion and fragility of the individual seem to touch the visible surface of being.