Olivier Timbaud shows his photographies from July 8th to September 16th 2011, Galerie Joseph Antonin, 40 rue Emile Barrère in Arles, as part of the Voies Off Festival.
Olivier Timbaud has photographed the Middle East for twenty years (Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Koweit, Turkey, Kurdistan, Iran). He specializes in portraiture and photos of spaces influenced by geometry (urban architecture, buildings, environments). His photographic approach combines news and documentary in a highly sensitive way, developping around notions of the “close relative” and the “poor other”, which remain just and human.
Olivier also wrote “In Search of Ali Nasser H.“, a confidential text mourning a childhood sweetheart, to whom a part of the current exhibition is devoted.