Pierre Toutain-Dorbec is a Franco-American multimedia artist, social documentary photographer, and publisher. He has been described as "an artist whose work emphasize a humanist perspective."
Places of Memory. 2005-now
For this series, Pierre Toutain-Dorbec creates composite photographs from different original negatives, some being antiques, the others being taken by himself. From the new negative thus created, he prints a unique silver gelatin image which he reproduces using dry plates. This series is a powerful and thought-provoking concept that challenges us to consider the ways in which the past is preserved and remembered in our societies. Toutain-Dorbec's photographs offer a framework for exploring the relationship between history, memory, and identity. His work pinpoint that memory is not just an individual experience, but a collective one that is shaped by cultural, political, and social factors.
