Most photo works today often are living, moving, and transferring within the social media and online realm which looks insubstantial and intangible. Yet François Cambe’s works, a French artist, pulls them out of the virtual world and casts them onto an interesting variety of solid materials, revealing the vast possibilities of creating photo works beyond what we found only online or on flat, two-dimensional photo paper.

In some of his works, François submits his photographs into an AI system for modification, creating complexity in definitions and further raising questions about the creation of photography. François then subjects these images to a range of photo processes: transforming the digital files into negatives, printing them on transparent film, and allowing semi-translucent cyanotype-coated paper to be exposed to UV light. The result is a tangible work in the real world, born from the convergence of diverse photographic processes and definitions, where the photographic matter and definition can no longer be separated into distinct elements.

François Cambe is a French visual artist whose work presents dissonant relationships, focusing on hybrid combinations of forms, materials, and substances to explore images from the past through contemporary methods of creation. François used to live in Europe, South America, and Canada, he now lives and works in Bangkok, Thailand.