Seb janiak biography sample

SEB JANIAK (2012)
‍Limited edition (1800 ex.) (sold out)
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Edition Zauberkind
Hardcover in holographic box
‍(dimensions 24 x 34 cm, 344 pages)
ISBN 978-3-905904-22-2
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Preface by Philippe STARCK (version français en bas)
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I was under thirty years old, and I didn't have much but the guy that walked into my office seemed to have even less than me.

It has been thirty years since the day I met Seb Janiak. He wanted to photograph the prototype of a lamp that I had created, the Raie Manta. This suited us both: I didn't have the money to put my work out there, and he was driven by a thirst for experience, which never left him.'

Seb struck me immediately as a pioneer: he filmed the lamp with a camcorder and from it he extracted a photograph with extraordinary tonality using biomorphism, a process that, at the time, few were familiar with and could use with any artistic intelligence.

Without knowing it, and before everyone else, he had invented digital photograph