LOUIS DE BELLE

Cartographies is a series of photographs shot in the streets of New York. Its focus lies in reducing visual information to a minimum. Creases, sweat stains or even dirt, are the only hints one can see. They tell us about an employee’s day at the desk, a commuter’s routine on the subway or a workman’s shift. These few traces, along the folds of the different clothing, become impressions of everyday lives, eventually cartographies of everyone’s journeys.

Cartographies was selected by Colin Westerbeck and Joel Meyerowitz for the revised edition of Bystander: A History of Street Photography, Laurence King Publishing and published as a monograph by Humboldt books.

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Cartographies

Photographs by Louis De Belle
Text by Francesco Pacifico
Design by Claire Huss
Published by Humboldt books

ISBN 9788899385835
2021 | English
32 × 23 cm, 40 pages
Elastic-bound
€ 25

The Cartographies book, made up of twenty sheets held together with an elastic band, alternates original photographs with large, full-page details. The central spread features an index of the images organised by time of day. The subtitle New York, 10 am – 7 pm in fact references the time span in which the images were shot, underlining the repetitiveness of everyday actions.

The photographic sequence is accompanied by a text written by Francesco Pacifico within a New York setting, laid out in text fragments alternating with the images.

Cartographies Special Edition

Photographs by Louis De Belle
Text by Francesco Pacifico
Design by Claire Huss
Published by Humboldt books

ISBN 9788899385835
2021 | English
32 × 23 cm, 40 pages
Elastic-bound
€ 125

The Special Edition comprises:
A signed 30 x 20 cm print
A glassine embossed envelope
A signed copy of the book

Cartographies at KINDL Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin

Cartographies at Baeckerei Moabit, Berlin

Exhibitions:

2019 Bauhaus 100th anniversary, Neufert Box, Weimar
2019 Kassel Fotobook Award, Touring Exhibition
2018 Routinized Absurdity, KINDL Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin
2018 Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, Darmstadt
2017 Kartographie, Baeckerei Moabit, Berlin
2015 SVA Flatiron Gallery, 141W 21st Street, New York

Awards:

2019 Fotobook Kassel, Shortlist
2015 PDN Street Photography, Recipient

Reviews:
iGNANT
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Slanted
Der Greif
Collater.al
Phases
WIRED Japan
Paper Journal
ELLE Decor