Short Biographies
Antoine Ribaut
From Paris —the City of Light— I travel the world trying to get away from modernity and its associated light pollution to live out how ancient civilizations before us gazed at the night sky.
Using both digital and analog photography, I study the process of imaging time and space, playing with light and shadow while retaining structure. I don’t feel bound to what the mind sees. I deeply believe reality hides many doors that ought to be opened gradually to really start seeing our universe unfold.
Fascinated by the stars early on, I furthered my apprenticeship in Vermont, USA, where a century-old guild of astronomers teaches apprentices how to carve and polish telescope mirrors by hand. After three rigorous years I mastered my first telescope optic and started working to capture the distant light of our galaxy. Returning to working with traditional film allows me to stay true to the physicality of transmuting reflected star-light back to matter.
Close by the mythical Very Large Array radio telescopes, I am currently building an observatory for artists and astronomers alike to come work and express their vision under the truly dark skies of New Mexico.
Eye on the Universe Observatory
Datil, 87821 New Mexico, USA
Betsy Green
For many years, I have used analog processes to question our relationship with nature and probe our concept of landscape through the creation of contemporary photographic works.
As an artist, I apply historical photographic analog technologies in my work. I use a nineteenth-century plate camera to create large-scale cinematic images. In a contemporary way, my work research nineteenth-century themes. Yet my analog photography and the resulting analog photo prints are not mere nostalgic retrospectives.
I seek out places that appear timeless, that are out of time and show the sublime. I explore, discover, and investigate the landscape on foot, as it exists now. Specific incidences of light and shadow with a deviating perspective make the work more than purely documentary. A transformation of the captured image arises in my work. The chosen landscapes that I portray have meanings of place, historic significance, and connection to a greater whole.
My work shows nature, as we will never experience. It is as if we discover a world that has been unveiled a long time ago and that remains at the end of days.
Atelier Betsy Green
Passeerdersstraat 49 C
1016 XB Amsterdam,
The Netherlands