BAZIN Philippe

Born in 1954, Philippe Bazin studied medicine but turned himself towards photography as soon as 1986, in order to question one's condition regarding the generalized institutionalization of existence. The medical world took an important part in this phenomenon, since people are born and die in hospitals. Since the year 2000 his works explore different sites and places where his questions find a material figure. This is what has been done in the Antichambres, realized in 2008 in Poland in 18 retention centres for asylum seekers.

Bibliography

- Long séjour, texts from Sidi Mohamed Barkat, Réjean Hébert and Virginie Devillers, interview with Morad Montazami, éditions ah !/Le Cercle d’art 2009.

- La Radicalisation du Monde, texts from Christiane Vollaire and Georges Didi-Huberman, L’atelier d’édition/Filigranes 2009.

- Une Partie de la campagne, text from Philippe Bazin, Centre d’art de l’Yonne/Conseil général de l’Yonne, Nevers 2006.

- Dufftown, texts from Allan Warner and Philippe Piguet, POC 2006.

- Nés, texts from Bernard Lamarche-Vadel and Christiane Vollaire, Idem+arts/Méréal 1999.

- Adolescents, text from Thierry de Duve, Le Channel/William Blake & Co, 1995.

- Faces, text from Bernard Lamarche-Vadel, Ecole Nationale de la Santé Publique/La Différence, 1990.