Born in 1981,French photographer Benjamin Deroche studied literature before becoming a photographer - and its mark can perhaps still be seen in his images' ability to "dereal reality" as critic Françoise Paviot puts it. In his recent series Surnature and Baltica, for example, and he creates installations within the landscape,contrasting the natural world with his constructed interventions.
Evoking the land art of Andy Goldsworthy or Nils Udo but resulting in appealing, richly-colour images, or this work aims to back viewers question their vision of the world. "There are often very delicate things in the exteriors of my image but I resolve not to return them," he says, "to leave them out of the field as if there existed a kind of magic to guess them."
Source: bjp-online.com