The Eye: Non-Photo 3

By Chris Klimek
Special to The Examiner 10/12/08

Non-Photo 3 by Jean Noel L’Hameroult -- Courtesy Photo WASHINGTON – Name: Briony Evans Hynson
Occupation: Creative Director, Honfleur Gallery
Residence: Baltimore

Why I chose this picture: Jean Noel L’Hameroult is French photographer who’s worked in the fashion industry for many years. At the beginning of each roll of film, there’s an accidental exposure that ordinarily you throw away. He’s paid careful attention to these over his career — he looks at every single one of them, and occasionally there’s one that has something interesting about it. For years he just kept these in a little box in his desk and didn’t do anything with them, but recently he’s been focusing more on his fine art work, and he’s begun to choose some of these accidental exposures as a basis for a new body of work. These works are large scale chromogenic and digigraphy prints.

They’re quite elegant and subtle; there are a lot of intense colors that you wouldn’t expect to see. "Non-Photo 3" has an intense yellow hue over a very saturated umber color at the bottom of the page. It’s quite breathtaking. Some people liken (these images) to landscapes, or say they look like forest fires or sunsets. But basically, they’re just accidental exposures that he’s had the foresight, and the editorial eye, to choose.

Beauty is all around us. It could be in a tree leaf or a crack in the cement. To me, this collection of work is almost a statement about trying to find that potential beauty in whatever it is you’re working with.

If you go
“Three Lenses / Trois Objectifs” at Honfleur Gallery
Through Nov. 7
Honfleur Gallery
1241 Good Hope Rd. SE
Admission: Free
More information: (202) 580-5972; www.honfleurgallery.com

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