Photographer Alain Paiement presents a bird’s-eye view of his life in Montreal

When Canadian photographer Alain Paiement takes pictures, he often uses unusual tools. A ladder, a mini crane or a plane come handy, allowing him to position his camera anywhere from a few inches to a couple of storeys above the ground.

ALAIN PAIEMENT AT MATTHIEU FOSS GALLERY

What would you look like if shot from above? It’s not a question most of us have to consider, but for Canadian photographer Alain Paiement, that is the preferred angle of choice. In this immensely fun show, Paiement will display two series of works ...

Alain Paiement’s Surfacing Over There exhibit opens in Mumbai

Montreal-based photographer Alain Paiement opened his first solo show in Mumbai entitled Surfacing Over There at the Matthieu Foss Gallery on March 3, 2011. This is a fascinating show for two very important reasons ....

GET: a look at photographs by Quebec based artist Alain Paiement.

"Surfacing Over There" at Matthieu Foss Gallery

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Dans le cadre d’un echange initie par les Ministeres des Relations Internationales entre le Quebec et le Maharashtra, la galerie Matthieu Foss (Mumbai) et la Fonderie Darling (Montreal) proposent une exposition de l’artiste photographe quebecois Alain Paiement en Inde...

Surfacing Over There

This exhibit of photographs by Quebec based artist Alain Paiement are worth viewing. His work is mainly made from photography in form of installations, sculptures, and photomontage. His themes are related to geography, topography and architecture and he is mainly concerned by the construction of vision...

The Overhead Shot

Quebec-based photographer Alain Paiement's works are evidence that digital manipulation is not the devil but a tool that an artist can employ to achieve hitherto unscaled heights. And at a height Paiement indeed is.

View from the top

With my photographs, I don’t aim at telling a story. I want to show a story as it happens,” says Canadian artist Alain Paiement. This sentiment clearly reflects in his photographs on display under the title ‘Surfacing Over There’ at the Matthieu Foss Gallery till April 2...

Black & White silences

Novelist Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi pays poetic homage to his father in a debut solo photo exhibition titled, The House Next Door.

Siddharth Shanghvi: novelist, photographer and sex scholar

At 26 years of age Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi was attracting a lot of attention. His controversial and candid writings on sex earned him an award winning best-seller (The Last Song of Dusk), garnered literary comparison with Salman Rushdie, and secured his place in India Today's 50 most powerful young Indians.

The House Next Door: Siddharth Shanghvi's photography

Author Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi took to photography and is now opening his photographs in his exhibition called House Next Door in Mumbai.

The House Next Door

Author Siddhartha Dhanvant Shanghvi's photographic tribute to his ailing father is also a thought-provoking documentation of age and illness. Vogue.in asked the author a few questions about his first photographic exhibition in India: The House Next Door.

The house next door by Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi

Author of two novels, The Last Song of Dusk and The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay, that have snagged a few awards along the way, Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi has more to relate. Until now it was little known that the author pursued an MA specialization in photography even before his books were out.

Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi’s The House Next Door shows in Mumbai

Best-selling author Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi debuted work from a totally different artistic discipline at Matthieu Foss Gallery in Mumbai on the 27th of January 2011.

The Shape of Emptiness

The day after Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi’s exhibition of photographs opened noisily at a cosy space in Mumbai’s Ballard Estate, Matthieu Foss, the tall Frenchman whose will runs the gallery, stood before an image of a clothing line...

“The House Next Door” at Matthieu Foss Gallery

Novelist Siddhart Dhanvant Shanghvi's father was diagnosed with with brain cancer. To relieve his fathers isolation post the chemotherapy, bruschetta, a miniature daschund was brought to the family home...