Collection of Hyperphotos by Jean-François Rauzier

Immense landscapes teeming with odd details. That’s how you could describeJean-François Rauzier’s hyperphotos when you first see them. An imaginaryworld in which the infinitely huge and the infinitely tiny are melded together at theheart of the same vision, in 10-square-metre (or more than 100-square-foot)monumental format.At first you think you’re looking at an enlargement of a panoramic photograph.Wrong. Look more closely and you absorb a strange atmosphere that distancesthe viewer from the real world and sucks him into a universe of dizzyingamplitude. Each hyperphoto is a gigantic hyperrealist puzzle, created byassembling hundreds of close-up shots taken with a telephoto lens.In reality, the eye is incapable of taking in such a vast panorama with so muchprecision, or capturing such high-definition detail at that distance.And how can we rationally accept the presence of certain surprising objects inthis natural setting? Where did the delicate cage, which keeps the bird in the lonetree from flying away, come from? Could someone really have fastened it sopoetically to such a high branch?Not likely. We are living in the digital age. Jean-François Rauzier is a wizard withmagical tools that allow him to inlay the secrets of his inner world in universalimmensity.The viewer of his works thus acquires an eagle eye, able to capture theinfinitesimal details of hundreds of images within the image, like a set of Russiannesting dolls.As you immerse yourself in the poppies, you realize that the extremely large ismade up of an overlapping multitude of the extremely small. The implications of this way of seeing are rich in symbolism.Here we are at the beginning of the 21

century, and Jean- François Rauzier hasmastered photographic technology in order to show us images of a primitiveworld, seemingly still untouched by humanity.Yet someone must have sown the wheat ripening in the midst of this imaginaryrealm. But there’s not even the reassuring shadow of somebody to set the birdfree, or listen to his song. Questions come up. Who will come to harvest here?Where are the people who have vanished from this scenery? Have they crossedto the other side of the looking glass?Time has stopped. Life is suspended, frozen in a curiously luminous “before” or “after”. A supernatural vision born of inspiration, the image almost breathes.In his hyperphotos, Jean- François Rauzier opens a door for us that leads toinfinite interpretations of fascinating enigmas.