Samuel Bollendorff
Musée de l’Étang de Thau
Les Larmes des Sirènes
france
Crossing the “plastic continent” located in the North Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Oregon, Samuel Bollendorff had the idea for a new photographic series in 2018, which he entitled Les Larmes de Sirènes.
In 2019, he joins the Tara Microplastique mission, in charge of collecting 2,700 samples from nearly 45 sampling sites located between land and sea. Samuel Bollendorff offers a dialogue between the beauty of the seascapes and the sad reality of the samples taken on site. Every year, an estimated 11 million tonnes of plastic are dumped into the ocean, making Europe the world’s second biggest polluter.
Tara Océan artist
ABOUT
Samuel Bollendorff is a Franco-Luxembourg photographer. He questions the place of the human in society by exploring forms of audiovisual writing and their transposition into public space.
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His photographic work, films and installations fuel his questioning of the image and the intimate as a tool for political reflection.
His achievements include Voyage au bout du charbon (Prix SCAM 2009), A l’abri de rien (Prix Europa 2011), Le Grand Incendie (Visa d’or du documentaire interactif 2014) or La Parade (Etoile de la SCAM 2018). Since 2018, with the series Contaminations, Les larmes de sirènes and #paradise, he has devoted his work to the issue of representing environmental catastrophe.