A sequence of otherworldly pictures by photographer Olivier Lavenac. Based mostly in French Polynesia, Lavenac is a photographer, visible artist, and instructor. His work displays on images as an inherited floor, inspecting how pictures proceed to function as their situations of legibility weaken. “Skywalkers” was made at daybreak on the atoll of Mataiva—a coral ring of 300 inhabitants, 300 kilometers northeast of Tahiti:
“Each morning earlier than dawn, fishermen collect on the dock. Beneath the violet and magenta hues of the rising mild, reduce by the pale glare of floodlights, gestures gradual, silhouettes sharpen. Fluorescent shapes within the evening. Stray canines ready. Darkish, nonetheless water. The strange takes on a wierd weight. Nothing is staged. But one thing in these pictures belongs to a different world: a visible territory nearer to science fiction than to documentary, the place a well-recognized ritual begins to resemble a movie scene. ‘Skywalkers’ inhabits this threshold, the place actuality begins to appear like its personal fiction.”
