“i like people.” is a concept video by blank (shanghai).
Image – Sound – Design (eric leleu, thomas chère, nicolas cinguino).
Lenght: 196 seconds, original size: 1080px by 1920px (HD).
It was made out of 4500 photos and was aimed at explaining the process of creation of my images ‘instants decisifs’.
You can view the final images here: www.instants-decisifs.org
They were shown in Art Labor gallery in Shanghai in May 2009.
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About Eric Leleu
I have been living in China as a photographer for a few years. My brain is obsessed by concepts such as authority, consumerism, capitalism, geopolitics, sociology or urbanity... In a word, I am interested in our contemporaries (you and I) and the world as it becomes. My focus is the dynamics of public spaces: the interrelationship between the authority, the crowd and the individual. As for my eye, it is looking for colors and intensity. My dream is simple: having a few of my photos living longer than me...