JM SIMOES - Magique place Clichy

Enlargement print made by the artist, dated, signed on the back and numbered 9/9, printed on Bergger baryté paper 24x30 selenium-toned, white margins, black border, image size 19.5x29 cm.
Careful packaging but possible in-person handover/pick-up in Paris-Batignolles.
Born in 1964, with a Franco-Portuguese double culture, living in Paris, JM Simoes has been a photographer for more than thirty years.
A strong interest in people initially guided his approach, in the 1990s toward reportage and the press, as a regular contributor to Le Journal du Dimanche, then to L’Express, Télérama and Le Monde.
For about twenty years now, he has returned to an analog practice where darkroom work constitutes an integral part of the final result. This work led him to discover old printing processes and to an almost exclusive use of vintage papers.
His work, continually enriched by the production of new series, blends a painterly/plastic use of the old techniques which, transformed into collages, montages, and sculptures, opens up horizons previously unexplored.
He has received the Documentary Photography Prize, the Investigative Prize, and the Jury's Special Prize at the Scoop Festival. Nominated for the Bayeux War Correspondent Prize and the AFP-Bendrihem Prize for Political Photography, his work is in several collections and public institutions.
Exhibited at the Chelsea Center for the Arts in New York, at the Abbaye de Neumünster in Luxembourg, at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Katowice, Poland, at Atelier 340-Muzeum in Brussels and projected in numerous festivals in France and elsewhere.
He has 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” (CNRS Editions), “Tout doit disparaître”, “Si Mao m’était compté”, “La puissance du négatif” as well as the set “IN-OUT”.