Get up close and personal with ace photographer Vincent Structure, who urges you to let your imagination flow with his intent fascination for clouds
Get up close and personal with ace photographer Vincent Structure, who urges you to let your imagination flow with his intent fascination for clouds
Step into this studio and you are struck by one fact. They are all photos with the same background. So, what's so great about this, one would ask? They show the Eiffel Tower to the left and some houses spread out all along.
But, that is not what these photographs are about. It's the clouds and nothing but the clouds and yes; I am quite serious about this fact. Vincent Structure, a Frenchman based in Bangalore is the brain behind this. Why or how did this idea come about, we nudge? He smiles with a glass of whisky in hand and replies, "For seven years, I lived on a ground floor, painting, doing interior decoration and photography. But this got the better of me and I decided it was time to shift."
"I wanted to see the sky and float on a carpet," he quips and shifted to the sixth floor. He particularly chose that apartment because of the view the window provided. He adds, "I felt near the sky". Incidentally, he considers people who live at such a height lucky. This fixation with the sky has been with him for a long time.
"Since I was ten years old, the sky and clouds were an inspiration to me," he says adding, "I would try to see figures in the clouds."
Clouds always activated Vincent's imaginative streak. Having travelled far and wide, it was in Vietnam that he saw vertical clouds. "It would look like the clouds were coming from a volcano. I am very conscious of what we share in the planet like the movement of the earth and other things."
Interestingly, Vincent finds the blue sky boring because, "For me, the blue sky is just a sign of beauty for a day and nothing else." He loves a sky filled with clouds because it allows him to imagine figures over there. But, in order to do so, he believes, "Education, memory and things seen before here on earth are vital to draw a picture. A picture can be recognized in the clouds only if we have seen it before."
To take all these pictures, he uses a Canon Digital. Sometimes, to capture time, he would take many shots. "At times, I have taken 300 odd pictures just for one good view," he adds with a smile.
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