Whiteness of Being

Here are some lovely photos from french/swedish artist Mathieu Bernard-Reymond's 2009 series entitled Disparitions, exulting in the ghostly quality of white for which they are remote and beautiful. There is the knowledge and suggestion of human presence while at the same time the landscapes are rendered alien and abandoned. I get a feeling of dislocation, of being there and not there, or maybe on another dimension. The human influence of their built environment seems to merge with the foggy land rather than encroaches - the contrast seems to work together as a whole, creating this interesting and conflicting atmosphere.

A description of the series from his website:
"The series Disparitions the artist examines architecture, people, landscape and their mutual interactions. Man appears as a flâneur in the layers of the image, randomly present or absent. The architectural complexes thus generated become compelling stage designs for human decoration in which the individual beings are imprisoned."
Helen Hirsch

Mathieu Bernard-Reymond - Disparitions (2009)
images from his website here