Monday, February 1, 2016

Deborah Schoen - Weekly Post 3

French photographer, David Fathi creatively blends his love for science and photography into one and creates interpretations of the habits and limits of the human mind.
 
Fathi’s “Money” exhibition was based on a commission that promoted the new 20 Euro in 2015. The story is, organizers of the European Central Bank created an online Tetris game for people to play, meanwhile pointing to the security measures in place to protect the identity of the new bill. Fathi’s use of solid white or black backgrounds emphasizes the power a simple bill has on the public. He highlights the importance of the bill by spot coloring the 20 in his black and white compositions.
 
Fathi’s images are representations of the tile-organizing game Tetris and what scientists have described as “The Tetris Effect,” where people spend a certain amount of time in an activity and it becomes a pattern in their thoughts and dreams. Fathi’s photographs are of powerful people who work in the banking industry. He placed tile shaped pieces of the 20 Euro on his models eyes to portray the symptoms the industry has on them where the craving to make more money can effect every day lives. 
I felt cutting up the bill and placing the pieces over the eyes of his models was a clever way to show the importance of money and how it impacts all classes of society. Ironically, at the end of any Tetris game, everyone eventually loses. David Fathi’s photographs show the blinding effect money can have on ones life and the security that can easily be crushed by ceratin habits.


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