In 1987 Pascal Dhennequin photographed faces from the French National Navy for the identity papers of the arrivals: shaved heads, facing the camera, 5,000 faces passed before him, cold, for identification purposes only, and he manually took nine shorts of each, producing 45,000 images. No documents exist; it’s impossible to keep all that. Since then, however, he has archived the faces that he encountered: the impact, the time taken to listen, the noise of the camera, becomes the force of the look. “I photograph faces as architecture and architecture as faces in search of the human, a human”. Pascal Dhennequin has photographed the progress made by the works on the CENT QUATRE on a regular basis, thus providing us with a history of the workers’ involvement with the building.
Take a look at his photo coverages in the Opening workshop and on Pascal Dhennequin's flickr profile
