THADDÉ COMAR

How was your Dream?

 

website
instagram

GETXOPHOTO 
03 – 27 September 2020
info

 

How was your Dream? is a documentary photography project made in Hong Kong during the protests between June and October 2019. Thaddé Comar explores these new forms of demonstration and insurrection in an era dominated by societies under constant control. The title refers to the allegorical phrase that the protesters used to share their experiences during the protests and to avoid being discovered.

Using new codes that go beyond traditional photojournalism, Comar has documented the uprising and resistance of the Hong Kong democratic movement during the political transformation of the former English colony. Faced with the sophisticated deployment of governmental control, which includes facial recognition systems, geolocation, eavesdropping, infiltrations, water cannon, tear gas, helicopters and sonic weapons, the protesters developed a repertoire of invisibility and untraceability techniques that included lasers, masks, drones and encrypted communication. These photographs emphasise how new devices and forms of communication have transformed control and identification mechanisms, while new protest and resistance strategies have responded by hiding individuality and creating diffuse common identities.

Thaddé Comar was born in Paris in 1993. Graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Social Sciences, he chooses to study photography in 2014. In 2018 he graduated with honors from the The École cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL). His practice is deeply linked to current events and social movements. He is now based between Paris and Switzerland, where his practice varies between editorial work, commissions and personal explorations. His work has been exhibited in Vevey Images or ParisPhoto, and featured in publications such as Vice Magazine France, It’s Nice That, Trans Magazine or Variety Magazine.

Copyright © Thaddé Comar and Getxophoto, all rights reserved

error: Content is protected