
[ English Version after the french one ]
Spaceship George (aussi connu sous le nom de Kwesi abbensetts) est un photographe qui habite Brooklyn, un endroit, une atmosphère qui l’inspire énormément. L’énergie de Brooklyn, les ombres, les lumières, les habitants propres à ce lieu sont présents dans beaucoup de ses photos. Un des autres ingrédients de George est le naturel, comme dans ses nus dans lesquels il rend un bel hommage aux femmes, on sent une grande part de spontanéité, « je ne peux pas dire que je prépare vraiment – les séances photos. Cependant je peux avoir une idée et partir de ça mais pour la plus part tout se fait spontanément. ensuite ça dépend aussi de comment se déroulent ces moments entre toi et cette personne. »
Ce naturel s’explique par un autodidaxie, étant ainsi loin de toutes institutions et de tout standard, « j’ai fait une école de cinéma et durant ma dernière année j’ai acheté un appareil photo numérique, là a commencé mon désir pour la photo et puis je ne comptais pas passer une 4ème année à l’école ». Son autodidaxie lui permet aussi une liberté rare, le stimulant à repousser toutes limites, à oser, « je n’ai pas de limites, il y a un ordre mais limiter signifie ne pas savoir quoi faire d’autre. Le meilleur moyen d’apprendre est d’expérimenter et de faire ces joyeuses erreurs. Ces erreurs qui sont la gestation de quelque chose de nouveau. ». On retrouve sur certaines de ces photos des mots, des phrases écrites de couleurs différentes, à la façon de Basquiat, très brut, « Je peins aussi et parfois tu prends une photo mais il n’y a rien de spécial et j’ai pensé pourquoi ne pas en faire un genre de peinture. Donc ça a commencé comme ça. Ensuite, c’est devenu un dialogue des petites réflexions de ma vie. ».

Spaceship George est un photographe en perpétuel devenir, s’essayant au noir et blanc, au numérique, à l’argentique, à photoshop, au nu, au photo de mode, au portrait. Un photographe qu’on ne catégorise pas, qui essaie, ose, surprend, touche et repousse chaque limite comme si il n’y en n’existait aucune. « L’existence précède l’essence » disait Sartre, « l’expérience précède l’essence » serait un bon moyen de définir l’art de George.

ENGLISH VERSION
I sent to Spaceship George some questions by email. It’s a photographer I really love because he experiments lot of thing. Plus, his love for women can be feel through his pictures and this love is amazing to me.

It’s been a while i’m looking and following your work.. What I love the most in all your pictures are the nude and mi-nude. I love nude in general but what I really like in yours it is the intimacy that you have with your models, we can feel it by looking at them, instead of Thierry Le Goues for example that does his nude in a studio, with lot of make-up and preparations. Yours are really natural. What are the preparation for the nude photograph? Do you have an idea before or do you do it naturally ?
Spaceship George : Well I won’t say I prepare much. Though, I can have an idea and I run with that but mostly everything is done quite spontaneously. Then too it’s dependent on how the moments are with you and that person.
for Installation #45 Face, you made some really nice portrait, really deep in black and white, which material did you used ?
Spaceship George : That, I did in photoshop. I think I may have done some overlaying. Lots of times, things just happen and then I say – it looks done now.

Are you a self-taught person ?
Spaceship George : Yes, I am. I went to film school and in my last year I bought a digital camera and my lust for instant gratification began. Plus, I was not gonna spend another 4 years in school.
I see in your work a lot of experimentations, do you have limits? How do you look back at your work ? what are your favorite pictures ?
Spaceship George : I don’t have limits, there is an order but to limit is to not know what else I could have created. The best way to learn is to experiment and make those happy mistakes. Those mistakes are the gestation of something new.
I have no favorites because the next one is always my favorite. There is one thats a black and white where two people are walking and their shadows cross, I like that one (clik here) a lot.
On some of your pictures you wrote words, sentences using a pen tool from a sofware (photoshop i guess?), when this idea came up and how? It reminds me of Basquiat.
Spaceship George : Well I paint also and sometimes you take a photo where there is nothing special about it and I thought why not make it into like a painting. So it started from that point. And then it became sort of a dialogue about little reflections of my life.
Do you sometimes use manual camera ?
Spaceship George : Well, I shoot manually most times, the lens is on auto focus but settings are mostly manual.





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May 16, 2009
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