Carole Monterrain : "The Homes of Homelesses"

A trained sculptor, Carole Monterrain is also a photographer. Her images play upon the ambiguity of the ´installationsª which cross her path by chance, the various accumulations and unusual confrontations. In her works, she strives to reproduce a visual shock and her intervention is voluntarily reduced to observation, without added staging. She has attempted to illustrate the radiating humanity of her models, with an ever present pictorial concern: the bright colors of the clothing, objects or utensils provide an almost joyful contradiction to the stereotyped idea we have of the homeless.
She extended this work by photographing the homes that the people living on the street construct for themselves. Precarious cabins, mattresses, blankets and cardboard boxes, whose set-up evokes fragile comfort in a hostile world. These ´accumulationsª are a return to her early photographic work with the integration of a new, social dimension.