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Déjà vu
Abstraction and photography
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Can’t handle this
Can’t handle this – Close-up view of a bright green steel handle on a charred dumpster, in downtown Montreal, Quebec. This color panoramic photograph was taken by Rico Michel in May of 2023.
Iron angel
Iron angel – Wide view of a crumpled piece of corrugated steel resembling a wing, in Montreal, Quebec. This black and white panoramic photograph was taken by Rico Michel in March of 2023.
Sous ton manteau d’hermine
Sous ton manteau d’hermine – Close-up view of a bicycle wheel covered in fresh snow, in Chinatown, Montreal, Quebec. This black and white panoramic photograph was taken by Rico Michel in February of 2023.
Farewell, photography
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Salt and soot
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What we don’t see
A man who had seen me at work during one of my numerous photographic wanderings shared this fine observation: “You are photographing what we don’t see”
Walking with Daidō
“I think that the everyday has many slits in its landscape, of which over on the other side, there is another world.”
— Daidō Moriyama
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While reading “Memories of a dog”, I imagined myself as a japanese Kerouac, on the road with Daidō. We were trying to get lost in space-time, in search of this state where, deprived of our usual landmarks, we would come to confuse past, present, memory and imagination. Daidō was not nostalgic. He was not looking for a memorable image, but for the image of memory itself.
Landes
Landes – Wide view of shadows cast by scaffoldings on a green container, in Quartier des spectacles, Montreal, Quebec. This color panoramic photograph was taken by Rico Michel in March of 2022.
Demimonde
Demimonde – Close-up view of fresh snow covering a hydraulic hammer on a construction site, in Griffintown, Montreal, Quebec. This color panoramic photograph was taken by Rico Michel in March of 2022.
Bogie
Bogie – Wide view of a railroad freight car’s wheel assembly during a light snowfall, in Saint-Henri, Montreal, Quebec. This black and white panoramic photograph was taken by Rico Michel in March of 2022.