Archive for May 19th, 2008
One
One of my best friends, Romain Blanquart, a staff photographer at the Detroit Free Press, has self-published his first photography book titled One. The photographs, all made with a point-and-shoot camera, were created during a recent vacation to China with his parents and wife.
These photographs were never intended to be published as a book or any other cohesive project. He was on vacation! Nonetheless, Romain came back with a striking set of personal images that not only focus on the Chinese individual, evoking feelings of loneliness, introspection and solitude in a country of one billion, three hundred million, but in my opinion also reflect on the photographer’s own loneliness and solitude. The Chinese individual is the One, as is the photographer.
To make things even sweeter, the book was one of 22 selected for judging in the photography book category at New York Photo Festival 2008. He didn’t win (congrats to Amy Stein), but Romain said it was just an honor to be included with such a talented group.
You can order the book from his website very soon, hopefully in June, in both hard cover and soft cover with your choice of one of six 8X10 prints. Check it out here.
All Photographs Copyright (c) 2008 Romain Blanquart All Rights Reserved
