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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Heinz Edelmann
My psychedelic childhood

Heinz Edelmann‘s illustrations really made a lasting impression on me as a child. His distinct style seemed all-around and I remember one picture book in particular.

René Laloux
La planète sauvage

La Planète sauvage is a classic of surreal animation. But it’s far more than just dazzlingly beautiful, it holds many thought-provoking ideas to contemplate on.

Agnes Pelton
Desert Visionary

Agnes Lawrence Pelton (1881–1961) was a member of the Transcendental Painting Group, dedicated to the principles of creating and promoting a pure abstract painting style imbued with spiritual intent.

Anna Halprin
Breath Made Visible

Dance is not something you do for an audience to entertain, it’s a very real experience. It can heal you.

Uri Shapira
Chemical bloom

The works of Uri Shapira expose environments of alternative truth, made of active metal vegetation and various chemical growths.

Wolfgang Hutter
Unquenched Desires and the Big Fear

Wolfgang Hutter was clearly gifted with an exceptional receptivity to feel the call of beauty and the creative power to translate it back into form.

Nine Eyes
Stranger Than Fiction

The neutral gaze of the machine is becoming an ever-present reality, recording all those moments previously lost in time.

Amy Woodward
Birth of a Mother

Amy Woodward’s tender photographic eye focuses on portraying the experience of early parenthood. A pivotal moment for everybody living through…

Ben Tolman
Detailed views on inner landscapes

Ben Tolman’s ink drawings reflect the fact that there is a subtle world we only perceive in non-ordinary states of 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.

Gage Taylor
The Holy Grove

His meticulously rendered landscapes suggest a nostalgia for Eden and the availability of peace and joy through an expanded awareness of the beauty inherent in the land.

Judy Chicago
Visualizing Birth

Judy Chicago has continued to make art a vehicle for intellectual transformation and social change and to women’s right to engage in the highest level of art production.

Rajni Perera
(M)otherworlds

Rajni Perera paints a vibrant sci-fi universe ruled by hybrid deities, demons, and powerful black heroines.

Roger Caillois
The Writing of Stones

Roger Caillois’ involvement with stones isn’t so much on a scientific level, he more created a philosophy around the inner worlds of the stones.

Antoine Bruy
Scrublands

How do we want to live? These people choose a life away from the cities, willing to abandon lifestyles based on performance, efficiency and consumption.

Bernard Durin
Beetles and other Insects

There’s a whole earth community that has nothing to do with human beings.

Rimantas Dichavicius
Blossoms among blossoms

Rimantas Dichavičius is a photographer and illustrator from Lithuania. In this book he confronts the female nude with pictures of nature.

Pierre Radisic
Heavenly Bodies

The skin of another is as cryptic as the vastness of the heavens above. But we try to find meaning, with celestial maps of heavenly bodies.

Philip Kirkland
The Psychedelic Textbook Solution

Back in the early 1970s, Phil Kirkland created surreal textbook illustrations, mostly for psychology and health books.

Andy Goldsworthy
Working With Time

Goldsworthy is at play with the relentless flow of the elements, forming fragile and temporary moments in time.