A L P H A V I L L E & The 5th Quadrant (2008-present day) are two new bodies of work shot in South East Asia. These are works in progress. A L P H AV I L L E represents a fictional futuristic city/suburbia – a hub of empty human activity. The themes embodied in the work explore the concepts faith, hope, fate, suffering, longing, pain, celebration of loss, the passing of time, nostalgia, desire, lust, emptiness, evil, saints, angels, devils, demons, gods, death, decay, afterlife, paradise, hell, irony, juxtaposition, satire, black comedy. Influenced by Jean-Luc Godard’s film Alphaville, I identified immediately with the images of neon tubes (see the Neon Cowgirl series shot for Minotaur). This body of work is shot in saturated colour and is a new direction for me using Leica’s full frame M9 rangefinder. The 5th Quadrant represents a different type of vision – an apocalyptic world that I had initially thought, my early black and white empty landscapes, would provide the basis for. Within this monochromatic desert world, some form of life, there is something nomadic (I think of the photograph of the Sahara Beduin Tent) and stray dogs……
The images will be available for purchase as archival lightjet c-type photographs in three sizes of limited editioned prints. The printing and shipping of the photographs will be handled by Bayeux Ltd who are based in London. Shipping costs will vary depending on country of destination. Please email to simonlarbalestier@me.com for pricing, edition sizes, shipping estimates and print availability.
* Please note these are only reference JPEGs of the actual prints the base of the paper is much whiter than it appears here and the tonality of the print is much more subtle. Higher resolution images are available for viewing please email for further info.
Phoenix, 2010 from the "A L P H A V I L L E" series. Archival lightjet C-type photograph. Please email for pricing, edition sizes and print availability: contactme@simon-larbalestier.co.uk.
Red Boots II, 2010 from the “A L P H A V I L L E” series. Archival lightjet C-type photograph. Please email for pricing, edition sizes and print availability: contactme@simon-larbalestier.co.uk.
Couch, 2010 from the "A L P H A V I L L E" series. Archival lightjet C-type photograph. Please email for pricing, edition sizes and print availability: contactme@simon-larbalestier.co.uk.
Fasai, 2010, from "The 5th Quadrant" series. Archival lightjet C-type photograph. Please email for pricing, edition sizes and print availability: contactme@simon-larbalestier.co.uk.
Luxury, 2008/2010, from "The 5th Quadrant" series. Archival lightjet C-type photograph. Please email for pricing, edition sizes and print availability: contactme@simon-larbalestier.co.uk.
