“Le filles du 7ème - Paris 2008,” part of the fascinating Exactitudes series (exact + attitudes), a collaboration between photographer Ari Versluis and social profiler Ellie Uyttenbroek (via The Glamourai). You must check out the gallery, which spans more than 14 years of work — you know many of the types they photograph, and those you don’t remind you that people have the same instincts everywhere.
The artists’ website describe their work thus:
By registering their subjects in an identical framework, with similar poses and a strictly observed dress code, Versluis and Uyttenbroek provide an almost scientific, anthropological record of people’s attempts to distinguish themselves from others by assuming a group identity. The apparent contradiction between individuality and uniformity is, however, taken to such extremes in their arresting objective-looking photographic viewpoint and stylistic analysis that the artistic aspect clearly dominates the purely documentary element.
“Hipsters - Rotterdam 2008”
“Holly Hobbies - Limburg 2009”
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