Vincent Girardot’s photo diary documents an alpine tour of fish, factories and firs
One half of art direction and photography studio Julie et Vincent, Vincent Girardot is adept at shooting high gloss stories packed with babes for American Apparel and NikeLab, but it’s his photographs of mineral water bottle factories, raw fish and roadside attractions that really caught our attention.
Taken en route in the Savoie, and at locations that seem to share an interest in bottling – water, milk and test tubes all feature – Vincent’s photographs transform seemingly drab scenarios through skilled composition, remarkably saturated colours and a clever framing of the Alps.
There’s a great balance between clarity and abstraction: a bright broom and abandoned hose framed as a piece of installation, a tiny triangular road sign mirroring its surroundings of mountains and firs and a close-up of unidentified, coated wiring amongst some printed ephemera of the surrounding countryside with a “sunset” filter. All of this sits comfortably beside a man and his very happy dog, a happy man on a tractor and a lonely looking Peugeot at a look-out point.
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Billie studied illustration at Camberwell College of Art before completing an MA in Visual Communication at the Royal College of Art. She joined It’s Nice That as a Freelance Editorial Assistant back in January 2015 and continues to work with us on a freelance basis.