Jobs #1 - Limited Edition 1 of 10 Print

I am a Belgian photographer living in New York City, USA. For over thirty years I have been shooting editorial and advertising work that runs the gamut of still life, fashion and celebrity photography. Since relocating my studio in 2010 across the East River, within the artistic community of Long Island City, I have mostly focused on imagery that reveals the passing of time within an oddly shaped and jagged edged world where sudden mishaps accelerate the process. In series such as Crash and Slash on view at https://www.saatchiart.com/jmguyaux my approach to the contemporary object is not to "look at how beautiful that was" but to "look at what a beautiful thing it has become" and recognize as well as visualize the nature of the metamorphosis. As of late I have discovered the fascinating domain of New Media Art where the few thousand pixels image of the original maker are subverted to such transformation that its original content or genre will only be serving as a construct to a new physicality. My series of iconic imagery originates in the raw data of a picture that is manipulated and distorted via non-photographic software so as to reappear as a new layer of pixels and create an abstraction leading to the re-interpretation of the visual imprinted in one’s memory. By confronting the present, exploration of past and future are left to the imagination.