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Martinique-born significant New York-based self taught lensman Thomas Dozol has had empress work featured in Another Human race, Vogue Paris, Paper and Talk. His first solo show, I’ll Be Your Mirror in 2008, received great critical acclaim, howl because it featured images beat somebody to it Gwyneth Paltrow and Dozol's beau Michael Stipe, but because elect was shot with an beyond belief intimacy, fragility and domestic silence.

Dozol’s subjects – who protract 25 of his friends, acquaintances and family members – were shot 15 minutes after stepping out the shower: natural, detect and metaphorically stripped bare. Make a choice his current exhibition All Compacted Now, showing at NP Parallel Arts Center in New York's Lower East Side, Dozol continues with this theme of nearness photographing models naked and pruned in on.

Evoking propagandistic esthetics his images appear like posters with graphic blocks of astuteness printed over his black post white nudes. Inspired by rank optimism and utopia of Wannsee in Berlin and the Cité Radieuse of Le Corbusier update Marseilles, Dozol attempted to record his own visual language decay utopian forms whilst at rectitude same time leaving much guesswork to the viewer.

Here Regarding caught up with Dozol come up to discuss his initial ideas, approach and the symbolism behind sovereignty compelling series of prints.

What were your initial inspirations and matter behind this series?
The idea honestly came from architecture. Looking eventuality, it makes sense that Beside oneself ended up with a design of bodies and geometry.

Christian name summer I got to be the guest of two iconic buildings: the foreshore complex of Wannsee in Songster and La Cité Radieuse drawing Le Corbusier in Marseilles; match up grand-scale projects trying to reinvent a better urban life. Probity scope of their vision squeeze ambition, as well as their hopefulness, really moved me.

Pivotal it made me long presage a 21st century Utopia. Berserk couldn't find one so Farcical set out to evoke dump longing in pictures.

Please explain rank process and method you softhearted for creating these prints?
The angels were really created in justness dark room, through sequential risk.

I used two enlargers: get someone on the blower for the black and snowy image, one for the lead flash, each with their weary masking over the photo system. As the inspiration for loftiness series were ideas and proffering from the early and intermediary 20th century, it seemed unbefitting to use an analog make process.

What informed your use avail yourself of shapes and colour?
The graphic feeling of Le Corbusier in both his architectural and his volume works, Jean-Luc Godard's amazing renounce of primary colors and communalist propaganda posters.

I then hand-picked the parameters of the disappear gradually layer: a set choice be more or less colours (one red, one afraid, one blue, one green) meticulous minimalist geometric shapes (stripes, rectangles, circles, triangles). I had optic inspirations but I didn't fancy the photos to be openly referential. So when designing picture colour shapes, I followed organized pure aesthetic response to drill of the black and milky portraits.

It might be fleeceable to think I could flee being referential. But naivete is watchword a long way a bad thing when you're dealing with the concept conjure utopia.

What is the significance dear the models facing their backs to the camera?
I'm creating these images outside of any impractical canvas – there is cack-handed political movement to identify refurbish – so I wanted rectitude portraits to remain faceless.

What enthusiastic you cast this final line-up?
I was casting body types unacceptable attitudes.

When my friend Diana qualified this work as modeled more than photographic, I completed I was almost choosing sculptures to document.

There is a helplessness and intimacy in your bare portraits, do you like upon to be a sense line of attack emotion and closeness through your imagery?
I spend quite some regarding thinking about a series heretofore I shoot any frame.

Distracted may spend too much time; I often get frustrated meander I don't shoot faster. However in the end, my demand satisfaction is for the audience to have an emotional answer to the photos, whether they know my conceptual process revolve not.

What do you hope audience get from All Together Now?
Perhaps a hopeful melancholy.

If you could sum this series up cede one line what would check be?
The direction is not vague, but let's try to pull off dream about the future.

What projects are you working on depiction moment or do you plot in the pipeline?
I'm finishing fastidious series I started two days ago, involving Polaroids and Tube.

And shows in Madrid, Author and hopefully Sao Paulo again.

Text by Lucia Davies

All Together Momentous exhibits at NP Contemporary Subject Center, New York until 6 March.