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Phil Artez was born in 1965 in Afrrica ( Tanganyika ),at the age of 12 he went to France then he traveled to many countries such  as : Western Europe , Middle

East , India , China , Japan , North America , North Africa ( Sahara desert ) .He began photography 20 years ago after a trip by train across the Soviet Union.

All of these travels gave him a feeling of the exile . His real home is where he can work . He likes photography for the miracles it performs each day by accident .

He puts his life in his work and his work into it . It is like a long journey and a mirror of himself where he can be always on the move . He tried to explain more

with some keywords : " Time , space , ligths , body , masks , stage , sounds , movement , darkness , visions , nomads , respiration , instinct , instant , repetition ,

transformation , energy , show , ritual ,interpretation , silence , disappear . "  Now most of his influences come from music and dance . He likes what Orson Welles

said about photography : " It is a medium via which messages reach us from another world " . In french : Image = Magie . He believes also that the camera is much

                                        more than a recording apparatus . His technic is simple : He uses always the same black and white film and he enlarges himself all the

                                         prints because he thinks it's an essential part of the creative process . He has his own studio and print lab.When he is in the darkroom

                                         he likes to hear the sounds he recorded everywhere he has been before this trip to Russia where he decided also to take photographs .

                                         Phil Artez  sells actually his prints to fine art collectors around the world .Thank you for visiting Artezphotovisions.com