Blast of Underground Colors

• Prize
  Bronze in Portfolio/Personal
• Photographer
  Stephane Navailles
• Photo Date
  2022-2023

My pleasure is to take advantage of an ordinary, underestimated place like a subway station and bring back a new way to see it by playing with the possibilities: the lights, the colors, the shadows, the people passing by and nothing like undergrounds to do so, as I see it. Whether it be to go home, to work, to meet new people, new horizons, go on a date, by any means, those common areas are a crossing link to each other. They are full of life, that’s another thing I like about it, anyone can see my pictures and make their own representation, history with them.

I have been practising photo since 1993, the year when I discovered San Francisco, its tramcars and hip hop culture. The town appealed to me as much as in my memory of the film Bullit, I'd seen a few years before. Above all, urban graffs engrossed my interest: they meant a lot to me. Back in Paris a bad "guy" named burn-out ingratiated itself into my professional existence. Nothing made sense to me any more. I even pawned my favourite camera ! After months and months of "nothingness", my horizon opened up again to the beauty of lines, curves, people, in black and white or in colors.