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NATURAL ABSTRACTIONS

beauty can arise where you least expect it

I call "natural abstractions" abstract forms created solely by time, nature and the elements. They are ephemeral traces, largely discovered while exploring abandoned urban areas such as industrial wasteland, junkyards and unfinished worksites which show us that beauty can arise where you least expect it.

 

This project has been awarded numerous international prizes and received the label COP 21.

autres projets

OTHER PROJECTS

PAREIDOLIA

 

A pareidolia is a kind of optical illusion which associates a visual stimulus with an identifiable object, often a human being or an animal. The human brain is particularly inclined to recognize a face whenever an object looks similar to it.  

This serie is part of the exhibition Natural Abstraction.

TRIBUTE

Series based on the superposition of two images made from the monumental sculpture of Emile Gilioli located on the Glières plateau in Haute Savoie (France).

PANDORA

 

Series of new experiments based on the multiple shooting of the same place. Here the Gardens by the Bay in Singapore.

The SPOOL

 

Series based on the sculpture "THE SPOOL", from the American artist John Besbee which is composed of thousands of welded nails. The sculpture is part of the Snite Museum of Art (Notre Dame, USA).

tryptique celestia

THE  CELESTIA TRIPTYCH

 

Following the exhibition at the United Nations from 2nd to 20th June 2014,  the 3.6 m triptych  CELESTIA was offered to the UN in Geneva by the Permanent Mission of France. It can now be seen as part of the guided tours by more than 100,000 visitors each year. 

THE  BRICK

 

On June 4, 2018 at the International Labor Office in Geneva, with Kailash Satyarthi, Nobel Peace Prize 2014 and Indian activist for children's rights, we unveiled "The Brick" an installation I made in commemoration of the launch, 20 years ago, of the Global March against Child Labor. I brought this brick (2.6 Kg) last December during a report in Madagascar. The little girl we see on the right of the picture is not 10 years old and carries 26 kilos on her head. It is paid 0.0028 USD per brick transported.

 

peoples

PEOPLE

Brigitte Macron

Bertrand Piccard

“Thank you Marcel for the poetry of these images showing us the footprints of the passage of time!”

Kofi Annan

“My congratulations for these photographs that question our relationship with time and the environment”

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

Al Gore

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AWARDS

22

2018

International Color Awards NOMINEE 3 times in Fine Art Absrtract Professional category for TRIBUTE, THE SPOOL and BIRDS ON THE BEAN

2018

INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR  Honorable Mention in Fine Art Absrtract (Professional category) for the BIRDS ON THE BEAN

2018

INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR  Honorable Mention in Fine Art Absrtract (Professional category) for the serie TRIBUTE

2018

INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR  Honorable Mention in Fine Art Absrtract (Professional category) for the serie THE SPOOL

2018

MONOCHROME PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS - Honorable Mention in Abstract (Professional category)  for the serie THE SPOOL

2017
PRIX DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE DE PARIS (PX3) - SILVER in Abstract (Professional category) for the series TRIBUTE 

2017
PRIX DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE DE PARIS (PX3) - HONORABLE MENTION in Abstract (Professional category)  for the series NATURAL ABSTRACTION

2017
FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS
Nominee in Abstract (Professional category)  for the series PANDORA

2017
FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS
Nominee in Abstract Professional category)  for the series TRIBUTE

2016
International Photographer of the Year Fine Art Absrtract (Professional category)  -  3rd prize

2015
International Photographer of the Year Fine Art Absrtract (Professional category)  -  3rd prize

2015
International Photographer of the Year Fine Art Absrtract (Professional category)  -  honorable mention

2015

LABEL COP 21

awarded to the exhibition NATURAL ABSTRACTION by the Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy.

2015
"A
rt and Freedom Prize"

2015
International Color Awards
NOMINEE in Fine Art Absrtract
Professional category

 

2015

International Color Awards

NOMINEE in Fine Art CHILDREN OF THE WORLD Professional category
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2015
International Photography Awards
HONORABLE MENTION - IPA

2015 Professional category Fine Art Absrtract with : Celestia

2015
International Photography Awards
HONORABLE MENTION - IPA 2015 Professional category Fine Art Absrtract with : Oxydium

2015
International Photography Awards HONORABLE MENTION - IPA 2015
Professional category Fine Art Absrtract with : After the rain

2015
International Photography Awards HONORABLE MENTION - IPA 2015 Professional category Fine Art Absrtract with : Evocation of snow water ans ice

 

2015
​​Fine Art Photographic Awards
NOMINEE in Fine Art Absrtract
Professional category

2015
Moscow International Fotography Awards
Fine Art Absrtract (Professional category)  -  HONORABLE MENTION

COLLECTIVE

EXHIBITIONS

26

2019

GALERIE 1905

Shenyang, China

2019

Académie des Beaux-Arts

Shenyang, China

2019

SALON DES REALITES NOUVELLES

Paris, France

2019

ART3F

La Roche Sur Foron, France

2018

SALON DES REALITES NOUVELLES

Paris, France

2018

PRAXIS GALLERY

The Abstract Image

Minneapolis - USA

2017

ARTEPPES - AREA OF CONTEMPORARY ART

"contretemps"

Annecy, France

2017

SALON DES REALITES NOUVELLES

Paris, France

2017

11th BIENNALE OF ACTUAL SACRED ART

"Profond retournement"

Lyon, France

2017

ILO CERCLE OF ARTS 

Genève, Switzerland

2017

REALITIES NOUVELLES OUTSIDE THE WALLS (CASTLE OF VEYRIE)

Bernin, France

 

2017

ART GALLERY ABSTRACT PROJECT

Paris, France


2017

KALEIDOSCOPE MUSEUM OF KYOTO

Kyoto, Japan


2016

SALON DES REALITES NOUVELLES

Paris, France

2016

ILO CERCLE OF ARTS 

Geneva, Switzerland

2016

SALON DES ARTS

Amancy, France 

2015

ART GALLERY CHATEAU DES TOURELLES

"EMPREINTES HUMAINES"

Le Plessis Trevise, France


2015

ART GALLERY CARRE D’ART SAINT

GERMAIN

collective exhibition "Art and Freedom Prize"

Navarrenx, France


2015

OIASSO MUSEUM

collective exhibition "Art and Freedom Prize"

Irun, Spain


2015

BASQUE MUSEUM

collective exhibition "Art and Freedom Prize"

Bayonne, France


2015

PALACE JHON

collective exhibition "Art and Freedom Prize"

Bilbao, Spain


2015

MUSEUM OF PEACE GUERNICA

collective exhibition "Art and Freedom Prize"

Guernica, Spain


2015

GURS CONCENTRATION CAMP

collective exhibition "Art and Freedom Prize"

Gurs, France


2014

ART GALLERY SAINT-GENIS

collective winter exhibition

Saint-Genis Pouilly, France


2014

ART GALLERY CHAPPAZ

collective winter exhibition

Trévignien, France

2014

ART GALLERY CHAPPAZ

"Marcel Crozet / Henry Dody"

Trévignien, France

PERSONAL

EXHIBITIONS

9

2015

LA BRAVA

Thônes, France

2015

COP 21

Paris, France


2015

ORANGERIE DU SENAT

Paris,  France

 

2015

ART GALLERY SAINT-GENIS

Saint-Genis Pouilly, France


2015

ART GALLERY 555,

Cruseilles, France

2015

MJC DE NOVEL

Annecy, France


2014

RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES DE GENEVE (RIG)

Geneva, Suisse

                     

2014

UNITED NATIONS

Geneva, Suisse


2014

JWINTER GARDEN OF SEYNOD

Seynod, France 

PUBLICATIONS

21

 

2017
LE DAUPHINE LIBERE (2017-01-06)

2017
LE DAUPHINE LIBERE (2017-02-28)

2017
TV Seynodmag du 23 février 2017

 

2016
FRANCE INFO VIDEO
le travail forcé reste une réalité

2015
CARNET D'ART
portrait 4 pages 

2015
FRANCE 24
Interview (2015-12-07)

2015
CARNET D'ART 
exposition Orangerie du Sénat.

2015
SORTIR à PARIS : Marcel Crozet expose à l'Orangerie su Sénat

2015
LE DAUPHINE LIBERE
Marcel Crozet expose à la GALLERY 555 

2015
LE DAUPHINE LIBERE
Exposition à la Galerie d'Art Saint-Genis (Dauphiné Libéré 2015-01-22)

2014
LE DAUPHINE LIBERE
Marcel Crozet : Exposition collective d'hiver de la Galerie Chappaz (2014-12-11)

2014 
Léman Bleu : Journal Télévisé du 15-10-2014

2014
TV 8 Mt Blanc / SeynodMag 

2014
LE DAUPHINE LIBERE
ANNECY : Marcel Crozet inaugure la saison photo (2014-09-18)

2014
LE DAUPHINE LIBERE
Exposition de Novel (Dauphiné Libéré 2014-09-14)

 

2014
LE DAUPHINE LIBERE
Exposition aux Nations Unies (Dauphiné-Libéré-31-07-2014)

 

2014
LE DAUPHINE LIBERE
Exposition à la galerie Chappaz (Dauphiné Libéré 2014-07-21)

 

2014
MEDIAPART
Exposition de Marcel Crozet à l'ONU

 

2014
Chasseur d'Images 
N° 364 Juin 2014

 

2014
LE DAUPHINE LIBERE
Exposition de Seynod (Dauphiné Libéré du 18-04-2014)

2014
LE MESSAGER
Exposition Seynod

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

United Nations Geneva (donated by France)

City of Seynod (France)

Basilica of the Visitation (Annecy (France)

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Artworks in the following countries:
USA
France
Italy
Spain
Belgium
Switzerland

Germany
Australia
Hungary

OTHER EVENTS

 

Photographs on child labour projected during 4 days on the screens of TIMES SQUARE, New-York, USA.

PUBLICATIONS

 

Pour l'amour du plus pauvre. La Vie des rues de Calcutta et des centres de mère Térésa

Marcel Crozet (Author) - Publisher: Brepols

(ISBN : 2503502776)

 
Père Tritz, l'espoir à Manille

Isabelle and Marcel Crozet (Authors) - Publisher: Brepols

(ISBN: 978-2-503-50396-7)
 
Arcabas : Notre-Dame de la Salette

Patrick Laudet (texts), Marcel Crozet (photos) - Publisher: Cerf

(ISBN : 2204077224)
 
NATURAL ABSTRACTION

Marcel Crozet (Author) - Publisher : Editions Almalux

(ISBN : 978-2-9701143-0-7)

BIO

Marcel Crozet

Born in 1962, lives in Annecy

After covering the Iran-Iraq war in 1986, I spent almost a year in the slums of Calcutta as a volunteer, but also to produce a photo book with Mother Teresa. Since then, I have been working as a photographer for the United Nations.

During my coverage of numerous emergency situations on all  continents and capturing visits of heads of State to the UN, photographic abstraction slowly but surely became a way to incorporate a part of dream in my photographic production.

1986

Clandestine coverage of the Iran-Iraq conflict as a freelancer.


1989 

First time in Calcutta to make a photographic book with Mother Teresa and work as a volunteer.


1991 

First reports for the United Nations.


1996 

Beginning of collaboration with CIRIC news agency


1996 - 2000

In charge of the photo service of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva.


Depuis 2000 

Official photographer of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in Geneva, photo editor of the magazine WORK.

Marcel Crozet

15 Rue de la Cour 

74940 Annecy-Le-Vieux France

crozet.marcel@gmail.com

AGENT ARTISTIQUE
Andrea Crozet

andrea.crozet@gmail.com

Merci ! Message envoyé.

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