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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