Holywood is a photo road movie spanning five years across United Kingdom. A personal vision of urban mythology. Holywood contains 48 black and white photographs.
HOLYWOOD
2002-2006
Dominique Vautrin photographs an urban fabric that is falling apart, cities subject to the damage of anonymisation.
This reflection on wandering and solitude is the other side of our policed, urbanised society: office cities and expanding dormitory suburbs.
The collective unconscious vaguely perceives a major threat to identity, a great uncertainty about the future. Dominique Vautrin captures this general, intermittent malaise.
Anguish disseminates everywhere, but is no less real. Disaster is always close at hand. Yet the crisis never really comes.
The pertinence of his photographic stance reveals a fragmented world of solitudes.
In his series, “Holywoodâ€, a photographic road movie spanning five years across a socially ravaged United Kingdom, he depicts – in the style of American films noirs – the community heart of cities in the midst of being eradicated from human sensibility.
Free of all of the constraints and barriers associated with photojournalism, Holywood is a sombre and brutal experience, a personal vision of urban mythology.