Hegemon Chaignon

Hegemon’s work revolves around the concept of immediate memory of happiness.
Capturing memories when they are born, photographing the retinal persistence, halfway between reality, memories and dreams.
My latest series are made with digital pinhole photography to illustrate this persistence of vision and memory, between blur and sharpness, between photography and painting.

The pinhole camera is a simple camera that provide an image by passing light through a tiny hole for the lens. This technique also called “Camera obscura” (dark room) was invented in Persia around the year 1000, and is widely used by artists, especially from the Renaissance.
In 1514 Leonardo da vinci said :”Leaving the images of illuminated objects penetrate through a small hole in a very dark room then you’ll catch these images on a white sheet placed in this room”.
In a way associate a pinhole and a digital camera is a pure anachronism.
This historical paradox make photography and painting closer by obtaining this very particular rendering of a technically sharp picture with less details, skies and skins that seems to have been painted with a brush.

- Street School of Photography : I've found a camera on the pavement at 12 and never stop learning photography while taking pictures in the streets, architecture, lines, people...

- Epita : Computer engineering degree

- Esec : Superior School of Cinematographic Studies

Exhibition :
- 2021 Arles / Les rencontres Off / Galerie Ephémère
- 2018 Paris / Solo Exhibition Galerie 109
- 2019 Enghien-les-Bains / Galerie Sélection
- 2017 Paris / Solo Exhibition Galerie Gilbert Dufois
- 2017 Reims / Solo Exhibition Domaine Devaux
- 2016 Paris / Solo exhibition at L'Atelier de Coloration
- 2015 Nominee at the HSBC 2015 prize by Francois Cheval
Galerie Gilbert Dufois / Paris
Galerie Sintitulo / Mougins / Hsbc prize
"Ipanema" at l'Atelier de Coloration / Paris
Contemporary Photography Night / Paris
- 2014 Les Rencontres d'Arles / Arles
Galerie Gilbert Dufois / Senlis
Galerie Art You / Dinard
Galerie Art You / Rennes
5Th Base Gallery / London
- 2013 Contemporary Photography in Invalides / Paris
Contemporary Photography Night / Paris
- 2012 GMAC Bastille / Paris
Contemporary Photography Night / Paris
- 2011 Ephemeral @ Brick Lane / London
- 2010 Galerie Endoume / Marseille
- 2009 Galerie Gilbert Dufois / Senlis
- 2004 – 2007 / Evous.fr : online photographic residence
- 2004 Hype Gallery au Palais de Tokyo / Paris
- 2003 K-Rosse: kWh & Digital Bulbim / Paris
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