Alexis Pichot Nocturnal Rites of Passage — DOP

Alexis Pichot
Nocturnal Rites of Passage

July 5 2022

I met Alexis Pichot on an island in Southeast Asia a few years ago, and recently our paths crossed again, as we now both live in France. Reconnecting with Alexis and his images, served as a reminder to do more night walks and to savor this nocturnal shift in perception.

The long-time exposures Alexis brings back from his solitary immersions into the night reflect a desire for stillness, the quest to retrieve a timeless meaning lost to modern man. They reveal what lays dormant — landscapes of unseen beauty, inside and outside, testifying to our infinite communion with a living world.

Find more on his Website or Instagram.

Learning to stay alone, to live more densely.Sylvain Tesson

The selection starts with his most recent series Insula
Below you find a few images from previous works

From the series ‘Séléné’
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From the series ‘Marche Céleste’
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Arata Isozaki
Essence of Form and Values

These drawings and prints by Arata Isozaki visualize the fundamental concepts behind some of his most iconic buildings.

Étienne-Louis Boullée
The Temple of Death

Étienne-Louis Boullée is the master of monumental cenotaphs. His most emblematic project is his cenotaph designed for Isaac Newton.

Paul Gustave Doré
Christian Imagery

Every belief system has to offer a good story. The more poetic and sensational the more likely to find followers. Paul Gustave Doré‘s way of depicting Christian imagery is a great example.

Tom Killion
Californian Topophilia

The woodcut prints of Tom Killion speak of a deep love for the landscape, a passion for the poetics of…

Alphachanneling
Utopian Erotic

Dive into a lush erotic jungle of entangled bodies and divine pleasures.

Emil Bisttram
And the Transcendental Painting Group

These seekers of the inner spirit in outer things, wanted to carry painting beyond the appearance of the physical world.

Theo Jansen
Kinetic Automata

I follow Theo Jansen for many years now. What I like so much about his design approach is the playfulness…

Viviane Sassen
Unfortunately Fashion

This is as fashion as it gets on DOP. But Dutch photographer Viviane Sassen‘s work is extraordinary and transcends the common.

Microcosmos
Le peuple de l’herbe

This documentary from 1996 is a celebration of life.

Daniel Coe
The Flow of Time

In this ongoing series Dan Coe uses open-source Lidar data to illustrate the evolution of rivers and deltas.

Female Pentimento
The Permeability of Reality

Apocalyptic landscapes imbued with an ominous presence, that reminds me of the frailty of everything we deem safe and irrefutable.

Adrain Chesser
The Return

There are contemporary “back to the land” communities practicing a hunter-gatherer way of life. Projects like this will serve as a touchstone to those interested in living differently.

Yoga
Being whole

This post is a reminder to myself: “Do Yoga. It’s good for you!” I was introduced to Ashtanga once and since then I know that I should follow this path.

Boris Bućan
Reimagining Folk Art

Visually arresting and conceptually rigorous, the graphic design of Boris Bućan has recently experienced renewed international interest.

Valdir Cruz
Faces of the Rainforest

The Brazilian-born photographer Valdir Cruz has lived in the United States for more than thirty years, yet much of his…

Alexey Kljatov
Macro Snowflakes

Despite their brief existence, snowflakes are a testament to the limitless creativity woven into the fabric of the natural world.

Daniel Stier
Ways Of Knowing

A personal project exploring the real world of scientific research. Not the stainless steel surfaces bathed in purple light, but real people in their basements working on selfbuilt contraptions

Stanley Keleman
Emotional Anatomy

This seminal book by Stanley Keleman explores the notion that physical human shape is interrelated with one’s emotional and psychological reality — mapping the geometry of somatic consciousness.

Sharon Ellis
Tumult in Earth, Calm in Heaven

Her vibrant nature scenes convey a sense of the divine in nature and are reminiscent of the Transcendental Painting Group.

The Lost Tribes
of Tierra del Fuego

For seven thousand years, the Selk’nam, Yamana and Kawésqar people inhabited the forbidding archipelago of Southern Patagonia.