Benjamin Vigneron

I'm a French and Canadian visual artist and musician. I worked as a graphic designer contractor and currently full time as a record label creator, producer, curator at Listening Blue. My work is mostly online, I consider myself as an Internet artist. When it’s time to talk about my work in photography it goes hand in hand by talking about who I am as an individual, and what I singularly experience day by day. I have a bipolar type I disorder, addictions, general anxiety, hyperactivity and inattention. Since October 2013, the date where I first experienced a psychosis on the roads of Long Island NYC, my life can be described as a huge roller coaster with no end. My work reels around the question of emotional stability, Euthymia. Geometrical framing, striking harmony in calm compositions and typically neutral subjects. My camera is the tool to fight against instability and anxiety, for the profit of contemplation. They're the testament witness of the euthymia I experience and see in tumultuous urban or natural landscapes. Between the Aix en Provence / Marseille area and Montréal, I live upon fluctuating crises, which cost me many hospitalizations, police altercations, flirting with small criminality and a generally precarious life. Before the disease I was working alone at night. In my clear dark work, there is also the question of unconsciousness, the great roaring unconscious dwelling-place. It makes my imagination and my thoughts fertile with perceptions, which can feed the disease. Ultimately, my photography is a medium to convey stability and it brings a great, yet simple pleasure for those who revel in its high stillness.