They transform a park in Paris into a forest of gargoyles with Canon projectors

French photographer Clément Briend has used the art of projection to represent images of giant gargoyle heads hidden among the trees of the Parc de Saint-Cloud, near paris.

Just in time for Halloween, The French photographer Clément Briend has used projectors of Canon modified to create eerie gargoyle projections among the trees of Paris's Parc Saint-Cloud. The installation is part of the European Heritage Days 2012.

Briend has manipulated the projections to capture the individual leaves and bring them to life, creating ghostly faces in the trees of the French capital. Images take advantage of the natural texture of leaves to create eye-catching bright illustrations. Large-scale pieces are produced through multiple Canon large format projectors, from which Briend has removed the continuous light source to replace it with a flash and has optimized the light flow by modifying the optics of the projectors.

The project – titulado ‘Heritage Days, Domaine de Saint-Cloud’ – is the latest in a series of projection installations created by the artist, who has previously created disturbing high-profile images on French monuments and in Cambodian forests.

Clément Briend explained that the project has allowed him to create images of the world without being too influenced by reality.. “I have always wanted to photograph the world without being too faithful to what it is.. I always imagined devices that could transform and intervene with light in the things I photograph.. The focus became photographs that include projections and hence the idea of ​​making shows with projected images.”

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