François Vermot

 
Self-taught cinematographer and photographer, François Vermot (born 1987 in Neuchâtel, lives and works in Fribourg) captured his first images at the age of 12 with the family camcorder. While studying geography at the University of Fribourg, he produced his first documentaries—portraits with a particular sensitivity to the places where the people he filmed used to live. In parallel, he developed a passion for photography and light, observing what happens when nothing is happening. He regularly leaves his everyday life for a month or more, voluntarily losing himself in a new town, recreating his life for a time, somewhere different. In this way he has developed works that pay homage to the ordinariness of a place, to the banality of reality.

(external link : www.francoisvermot.ch)
 
François Vermot - Palais des Nations
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)
This monograph is a photographic record of the interiors of the Palais des Nations in Geneva, before its renovation. The work of François Vermot is the last visual testimony of this labyrinthine building with authoritarian architecture. Built in the 1930s, the Palace was the headquarters of the League of Nations, and then became the European center of the United Nations.


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