No the people who seem to be seconds before eating shit in these images
are not superimposed onto these French urban backdrops. They are
actually about to eat shit. These photos are from a series taken by
French photographer Denis Darzacq in and around the housing estates in
the outskirts of Paris. For Darzacq, the series entitle La Chute (The Fall) was partly inspired by
the terrifying imagery of people falling from the twin towers and
partly an expression of his disappointment in the self obsessed nature
of his fellow country men and how to him France is the kind of place
where someone could tumble from the sky on to the pavement and no one
walking by would bat an eyelid.
Darzacq asked his subjects (who were mostly local breakdancers) to hit
the concrete over and over again for sessions of up to 2 hours while he
photographed them mid flight.
François Gautret, 27, who runs a hip-hop collective in northern Paris,
was one of Darzacq's subjects. "I wanted to capture the sense of the
split second before hitting the ground," he says. "It was cold, the
concrete was very hard, in one picture you can even see my sleeves
pulled down over my knuckles so I didn't wreck my hands when I landed.
I totally got his idea of a society in which youth is ignored, feared
and left to crash. Even now, during the elections, everyone's still
using Nicolas Sarkozy's line that every young person on an estate is
racaille [rabble], that all anyone does is burn cars."
Check some samples to the right of this post. ---->
for more info visit Denis' website
here