Montier Photo Festival

Presentation

Gilles AUROUX

  France

  http://www.gillesauroux.com

  As far as I can remember, the surface of the oceans has always exercised on me a strange fascination , like an irresistible call to discover the unknown and mysterious world that hides below. The practice of scuba diving became obvious, then very quickly came the desire to document these incredible underwater landscapes and the amazing creatures that we meet there, the need to share all this beauty with "those on the surface", to make them love this very special universe that they often ignore and sometimes fear. Unlike terrestrial wildlife photography, where a telephoto lens is often used, the physical constraints of the aquatic environment require shots to be taken in the immediate vicinity of the subjects being photographed. I mainly use a 15mm fisheye for this, working barely a few tens of centimeters from the animals, at least when they accept this interaction... Today a regular contributor to Subaqua magazine, I mainly photograph pelagic marine fauna, with a particular affection for sharks, these great misunderstood and unloved of our oceans.

Exposition

 

The Blue Odyssey retraces my wanderings across the planet, discovering the pelagic animals that inhabit our oceans. It proposes a different approach of underwater fauna, a look that could almost be described as "underwater minimalism", insofar as no decor and very few colors disturb the attention, o the contrary of reef photos which emphasize the exuberance of the corals and the fauna that reside there. Here I invite the viewers to immerse themselves and get enveloped by this deep blue that stretches as far as the eye can see in all directions, just as I was when I took these photographs. And since nothing distracts the attention, now only the animals and their attitudes count: the glances of course, fleeting or insistent, but also the movements barely sketched and frozen by the camera, all those little details which instantly reveal their nature of predator or prey and condition the interaction that will result...

Books

Les acrobates de la cote pacifique

Les acrobates de la cote pacifique

  Author : Gilles Auroux
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  Publisher : 30 millions d'amis - Octobre 2022
Le maillon fort de l'océan

Le maillon fort de l'océan

  Author : Gilles Auroux
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  Publisher : 30 millions d'amis - Juin 2022
Incandescent Layang-Layang

Incandescent Layang-Layang

  Author : Gilles Auroux
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  Publisher : Magazine Subaqua N°293 - Nov. Déc. 2020
Au pays des peau-bleue

Au pays des peau-bleue

  Author : Gilles Auroux
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  Publisher : Magazine Subaqua N°298 - Sept. Oct. 2021
A bord du Manta Queen

A bord du Manta Queen

  Author : Gilles Auroux
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  Publisher : Magazine Subaqua N°306 - Jan. Fév. 2023
L'odyssée bleue

L'odyssée bleue

  Author : Gilles Auroux
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  Publisher : Auto-édition Gilles Auroux