BAD DAYS / UNE MAUVAISE JOURNÉE


Michel Lefebvre, writer
Chuck Samuels, photographer

A story of several bad days are told by means of a series of austere, black and white, close-up photographs of unfortunate daily occurences, accompanied by similarly austere, deadpan texts commenting on the events. As the days unfold, navigating through the events becomes progressively more difficult. What was initially a light and amusing site visit becomes an increasingly dark and aggravating experience for the viewer.


MICHEL LEFEBVRE

As an author Michel Lefebvre has always souht to apply a multidisciplinary approach to his work : readings, performances, publications, radio plays, exhibitions, and now multimedia. Since 1994 he has been working on the photo novel
Liquidation and has accompanied its metamorphosis from one medium to the other : book, radio, web site and CD-Rom. He started his collaboration with Eva Quintas in 1990 with Portraits/Gossips of Montreal Artists, a radio text and a photographic exhibition presented both in Montreal and Mexico.

Besides its artistic activities, he works as free lance writer and multimedia designer and has realized various major cultural web sites, many of them for the Digital Collection Program of Industry Canada.

More info : http://www.AgenceTOPO.qc.ca/souslemanteau/mlefebvre.html


CHUCK SAMUELS

Chuck Samuels is a Montréal artist/photographer who has been exhibiting since 1980. His work has been exhibited extensively in QuŽbec, Canada, and internationally and has been published extensively. Samuels' photographs are part of the collections of the MusŽe europŽen de la photographie in Paris, the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography in Ottawa and the MusŽe Secret in MontrŽal as well as many private collections in North America and Europe.

These are some sites presenting or selling the work of Samuels :


http://www.kodak.fi/global/en/professional/hub/museums/photography90.shtml

http://www.art-history.com/facphotography.html
http://www.artintegrity.com/cs/chuck.html
http://www.queer-arts.org/bright/bright.html
http://www.vancemartin.com/with_background/flat/flat.html
http://www.ciac.ca/expos/samuels.html
http://www.cam.org/~vpopuli/mv/index.html