Social networks, applications for smartphones and a totally new and extreme hedonism caused a development that makes photography something needed but also accessable by everyone nowadays.
Whether you know anything about the basics of taking a picture or not, the right app even crops your capture totally automatic so you get an edgy and artistic photo as a result. Art without any artistic progress or development. No visual references.
After escaping from it´s pragmatic and non artistic cage photography is loosing its manifestation as an absolute genre in art. After just a decade in Museums and on the art market it is becoming straight away not more than a profile picture on facebook.
Philippe Schorlemer captures with his Big Shots casual, daily sights. Things that may be important to him or just pass his eyes. But that is absolutely enough to make those scenes iconic, even though just at that special moment of capture.
Inspired by coverage and documentary photography in the 40ies, 50ies and 60ies , which were mostly snapshots but became icons of time, Philippe is searching his own icons on a daily base.
To make the Big Shots even more iconic Philippe von Schorlemer converts his photographies in sculpture with an impact on the viewer because of their unexpected size in relation to traditional framing and proportions.
