Harold Watson. 12 rue André Joineau Le Pré Saint Gervais +33 (0) har.wat@gmail.com

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1 Harold Watson

2 Harold Watson 12 rue André Joineau Le Pré Saint Gervais +33 (0) har.wat@gmail.com Born in Saint Germain-en-Laye, France 1980 Live and work in Paris, France EDUCATION Ecole Supérieure des Arts Visuels de la Cambre. Brussels, Belgium. 6th year. Painting course Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg, France. 5th year. Fine Art course. Master in Fine Arts with distinction from the jury. (Diplôme National Supérieur d Expression Plastique - DNSEP) Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg, France. 4th year. Fine Art course. ERASMUS stay for a period of 6 months at the Fine Art School of Prague, Czech Republic. Graphic Design course Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg, France. 3rd year. Fine Art course. Fine Arts Degree (Diplôme National d Arts Plastiques - DNAP) Ecole Supérieure des Beaux Arts d Avignon, France. 1st and 2nd years. Fine Art course. PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS 2006 The Ship Galeria IVASFOT (Instituto Vasco de Fotographia). San Sebastian, Spain. 22 black and white photographs Diplômes 2004 La Boucherie. Strasbourg - Shiltigheim, France. Installations, digital prints, drawings. COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS Petites Mises En Scènes Galerie Stimultania (during the event L Eté de la Photographie ). Strasbourg, France. 13 color photographs. LANGUES Les Soldes Galerie Stimultania. Strasbourg, France. Ludic installation Les mouettes. French native speaker, english fluent, notions in spanish, notions in german Atelier de Sèvres - Year of preparation to fine art schools. Paris, France.

3 About photography What s a city? A melting pot of contradictions, tumultuous and vibrant, perpetually changing. Paris, Brussels, San Sebastian or Venice: in the European city natural habitat, place of transit, ultimate playground I explore my immediate surroundings through the prism of a certain conception of travel. Moved by a feeling of urgency, I record my trajectories. I photograph faces and bodies that appear and disappear instantly into the moving crowd a chassé-croisé of chaotic itineraries rhythmed by confrontations attempting to convey the intuition of a flux, the tangible dynamic, the inner beat of the city, its energy. Incessantly questioning my relationship to the territory, I mean to sketch an intimate cartography of the world in which I move, to depict and transfigure the ordinary, to suggest the outlines of my relationship to the world, my sense of a common destiny. My pictures an accumulation of notes taken on-the-spot are the markers of an approach by which I project my concerns about identity, my relation to otherness, to collective history, to the sacred. By organizing them in sequences but also by integrating them into systems for exhibitions, I mean to give substance to an allegorical work a psychic journey whose power of evocation resides in its capacity to suggest, to invite the spectator to revisit his own history. My practice of photography and my projects are inspired at once by documentary photography (The Americans by Robert Frank and Nordmeer by Guergui Pinkhassov; the art of Josef Koudelka, Jean Gaumy and Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt), diaries (The I Novel by Araki, the art of Daido Moriyama, Anders Petersen and JH Engstrom) and interrogations developed by contemporary artists who question the photographic medium and the photographed object (Thomas Ruff, William Wegman, Hanna Starkey, Wolfgang Tillmans). All the black and white pictures that appear on the site were made using analogical technique.

4 Three Brothers (Haguenau, France ) / Work In Progress.

5 A Woodland Story (Cambounès, France )

6 Sketches In The Snow (Ecos, Montalbert, ) / Work In Progress.

7 Sketches (Lisbon, Porto, Barcelona, Montpellier ) / Work In Progress.

8 Shades Of Light #1 (Paris, 2012)

9 There Are Plenty More Fish In The Sea (Paris, 2012)

10 Sunday Morning (Paris, )

11 La Ballade du Jardin Des Plantes (Paris, )

12 Saudade (France, Spain, Belgium & Italy, ) / Work In Progress.

13 Sueño (France, Spain & Italy, )

14 Paris - The Chinatown Report (Paris, )

15 Une Echappée (France & Spain, ) / Work In Progress.

16 Paris Sketchbook (Paris, ) / Work In Progress.

17 Lafayette (Paris, )