(1974, France)

Cédric Delsaux is a French photographer. For 10 years he has crossed the increasingly tenuous border between reality and fiction. At first he was known for his advertising photographs, but nowadays his sereis have launched them to fame.

His first series of great route “Nous resterons sur terre” (We will remain on land) was published in 2008 in France and in 2009 in the USA edited by Ediciones Monacelli Press (Random House). It proposes a subjective return to symbolic sites of our (post-) modernity, sites both beautiful and boring, beautiful and ugly, banal and crazy.

His second series “Dark lens” (dark glasses) was published in France by Xavier Barral in 2011, and was also distributed in the USA and even translated into Japanese. George Lucas wrote the prologue. Dark Lens introduces the characters from the Star Wars saga in real life and in Parisian surroundings revealing the extent to which our perception of the city passes through the filter of fiction.

He also created “1784” e that encloses 17 actors in a castle and makes them live as in the 18th century for 7 days. Then he created “Echelle1” where he asked the passers-by to ride on a white wooden base, turning them instantly into dolls of the work. This work talks about the industrial scales, the delusions of grandeur that also mix truth with fiction.