KALEL KOVEN

BETWEEN US, NYC. 2015

"Between Us" New York City - 2015 - This is a series that follows a work done in 2010 "Light of my Eyes". In continuity of a documentary approach on the city of NYC. A fascination that pushed me to do this project during 3 months in the streets every day. I did not try to take pictures of decisive moments, or played with humor in my photos. I wanted to get rid of these artifices of these "tricks" that become mechanical effects, a ready made recipe, far from clichés. Be focused on emotional and instinctive moments. A crossing of gaze, matters and colours that come to life in a restrained breath, time is suspended, a silent picture and clean. Caught in the crowd, in his thoughts, in his action, perhaps even in his solitude. The passer-by is seized, isolated, enhanced by light and a distant intimacy.

I'm trying to figure out how people can be understood. People are not themselves, they are representative of a state. I'm interested in this in-between. A movement where the harmony of the elements converge towards this magic moment that catches us. Using the language of documentary photography, I try to share my observations on this city, this population, this time. A narration that does not stop at the shot. She continues, non-factual, I like the idea that we feel this impression of continuity in my photos. There is no decisive finality of action and I do not seek it. It is a window that opens in the streets, on those moments that only froze for a moment only by the looks on the photos. To resume its course only once the glances are stolen.