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7/11/2012

Thierry Cohen

Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris

In Thierry Cohen's Darkened Cities, we see bright night skies over cities. Actually, what we're seeing is the opposite. These are the skies that we don't see. Before these pictures can exist, the sky from one place has to be superimposed upon cityscape from another. It is impossible to see this detail in the night sky above a city. Atmospheric and light pollution combine to make looking into the urban sky like looking past bright headlights while driving. By travelling to places free from light pollution but situated on precisely the same latitude as his cities, Cohen obtains skies which, as the world rotates about its axis, are the very ones visible above the cities a few hours earlier or later. To find the right level of atmospheric clarity, Cohen has to go into the wild places of the earth, the Atacama, the Mojave, the western Sahara. (Francis Hodgson)

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