Abandoned World

• Prize
  Bronze in Special Categories/AI-Generated Images
• Photographer
  Francis Meslet
• Technical Info
  Ai Generated Pictures Trained With My Own Pictures Of Abandoned Places.
• Photo Date
  2024

Drawing on fifteen years of urban exploration, Francis Meslet, a photographer of the poetry of ruins, takes us on a journey of discoverythrough anabandoned world in the not-so-distant future, with the help of artificial intelligence. Plant life reclaiming its rights in Europe’s largest deserted libraries; the open-air ruins of thefinest theatres; the remains of major decommissioned industrial facilities; Paris overgrownwith vegetation;and the ruins of Notre-Dame, which couldn’t be saved from the flames … Francis’s workis much more than just the iconographic documentation of an imagined world.

A LOOK AT THE SILENCE A graduate in Design from the Fine Art School of Nancy in 1986, early in his career Francis Meslet was a designer, but soon turned to advertising when he joined several agencies as an artistic director. After 30 years spent questioning the creative concept and studying images in all his compositions, he is now a creative director. Francis does not hesitate to roam the world in his spare time, searching for abandoned sites, sanctuaries where time seems to have stopped after humans have evacuated them. He thus brings back captivating and melancholic images of his travels.