While the weather apparently does not know yet if it should cold as hell or just Spring-like in Paris, the last month has been quite productive speaking of photography. First, the LA Collection show at Duncan Miller Gallery was quite a success. So was the presentation of the collection at Seoul, for the Pink Art Fair. And then, as the show ended, another black & white piece of mine was selected for another LA exhibit! This time, it was the 1650 Gallery, located in Echo Park, which had selected Smoke and Mirrors to be featured in their Dark Side exhibition!

 This show was rather on the short duration side, but I liked the swift submission process, so I’ll probably try to sumit works once more to their calls. Now, on the local side, a solo show made out of a short selection of my United States of A. pictures has opened last week in the renowned Sciences Po university here in Paris! Eight pieces are on display until Nov. 22nd, when we’ll have a celebratory drink for the closing. For those of you who have connections in Paris, I encourage you to let them know about the show, and invite them to the 22nd party.

It’s great being able to show those mostly recent images, as I have not returned lately to the USA and I am slowly feeling the need to be on the road again, taking more pictures. With the hanging done and show already open, I had a different look at the meaning of all this. Not only were the images about the US, but I knew I was missing something about the general lack of human presence in the shots, while just two of them represented, not figures, but rather silhouettes, like bare symbols. It became clear that these images were about the iconic United States, the cinematographic experience, the vision of an outsider, raised with films and TV shows, conscious of reality but obsessed with the dream. It became even funny to realize that this couple posing in front of Red Rock Canyon was just another mimicry the Las Vegas wedding; the kids and families on Santa Monica’s beach, the poor’s man Melting Pot.

 The next parisian exhibition will happen in 2012!