JM SIMOES - Ordinary people

Magnified print created by the artist, dated, signed on the back, and numbered 9/9. Made on Bergger baryta paper 24x30, selenium toned, with white borders, black margin, image size 19.5x29cm.
Careful shipment but possibility of in-person delivery in Paris-Batignolles.

Born in 1964, of Franco-Portuguese dual culture, living in Paris, JM Simoes has been a photographer for more than thirty years. A strong interest in people first guided his approach, in the 1990s toward photojournalism and the press, as a regular contributor for Journal du Dimanche, then L’Express, Télérama, and Le Monde.
For about twenty years, he has returned to an analog photography practice where darkroom work forms an integral part of the final result. This work led him to the discovery of ancient printing techniques and to an almost exclusive use of vintage papers. His work, which continually enriches itself through the production of new series, combines a plastic, painterly use of the old papers that, transformed into collages, montages, and sculptures, opens up horizons that had previously been unexplored.

He received the Documentary Photography Prize, the Investigative Journalism Prize, and the Special Jury Prize at the Scoop Festival. Nominated for the Bayeux Prize for War Correspondents and for the AFP-Bendrihem Prize for Political Photography, his work is held in several collections and public institutions.
Exhibited at the Chelsea Center for the Arts in New York, at the Abbey of Neumünster in Luxembourg, at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Katowice, Poland, at Atelier 340-Muzeum in Brussels, and shown at numerous festivals in France and elsewhere.

He also produced the works “Springstine sur Seine”, “Request”, “A Linha”, “Verni$$age$”, “Bienvenu chez les ch’tis”, “La ville à trois vitesses” (with Jacques Donzelot), “Chiens de la casse”, “La banlieue vue d’ailleurs” (published by CNRS Editions), “Tout doit disparaitre”, “Si Mao m’était compté”, “La puissance du négatif” as well as the whole “IN-OUT” series.