No. 5 #birdofparadise, Lugano, Switzerland (series #birdofparadise) by Elise Prudhomme.

No. 1 #birdofparadise, Lugano, Switzerland (series #birdofparadise) by Elise Prudhomme.
No. 2 #birdofparadise, Lugano, Switzerland (series #birdofparadise) by Elise Prudhomme.
No. 3 #birdofparadise, Lugano, Switzerland (series #birdofparadise) by Elise Prudhomme.
No. 4 #birdofparadise, Lugano, Switzerland (series #birdofparadise) by Elise Prudhomme.
No. 5 #birdofparadise, Lugano, Switzerland (series #birdofparadise) by Elise Prudhomme.
No. 6 #birdofparadise, Lugano, Switzerland (series #birdofparadise) by Elise Prudhomme.
No. 7 #birdofparadise, Lugano, Switzerland (series #birdofparadise) by Elise Prudhomme.
No. 8 #birdofparadise, Lugano, Switzerland (series #birdofparadise) by Elise Prudhomme.
No. 9 #birdofparadise, Lugano, Switzerland (series #birdofparadise) by Elise Prudhomme.
No. 10 #birdofparadise, Lugano, Switzerland. (series #birdofparadise) by Elise Prudhomme.

#birdofparadise

#birdofparadise
In the midst of a garden, of the forest, perched on a tree branch or lodged in the shade of foliage, the naked body, divinely animal, inscribes itself in the order of nature. But is there a place for it in the order of the real? The artist does not seem quite freed from this nostalgia of fusion with the maternal realm. For a moment, hidden at the top of a tree-refuge, she becomes a bird. The photographer’s eye forges unceasing images of a paradise where recovering the voluptuousness of flight proper to creation is the greatest desire.

#oiseaudeparadis
Au milieu d’un jardin, de la forêt, perché sur la branche d’un arbre ou lové à l’ombre du feuillage, le corps nu, divinement animal, s’inscrit dans l’ordre de la nature. Mais y a-t-il sa place dans l’ordre du réel ? De cette nostalgie de fusion avec le royaume des mères, l’artiste ne semble pas tout à fait sortie. Le temps d’un instant, cachée au plus haut d’un arbre-refuge, elle devient oiseau. Son oeil de photographe forge sans relâche des images du paradis où s’exprime le désir de recouvrer la Volupté de l’envol propre à la création.

Patricia Bourcillier

About this Project

#birdofparadise is an appropriate name for this body of work which captures the feelings I had at the time for the location and the model (myself). Breaking away from family ties, moving overseas, seeking new horizons as a photographer and learning how to stand on my own two feet.

The folks at ARCH11, an architectural firm based out of Colorado, USA must have felt the same way about these images when they contacted me to license No.1 #birdofparadise for an advertising campaign about “shelter”.

This black & white medium format series was shot with a Hasselblad analog camera in a botanical garden in Lugano, Switzerland.

No. 1 #birdofparadise, is featured in the ad campaign "Shelter" by architectural firm ARCH11 and published in Modern in Denver magazine.