SPACE UTOPIA
Started in 2007, this series tells both the past and the future of space exploration: from the memories of the mythical Apollo program that allowed the first steps of man on the moon in 1969, to the Space Launch System mega rocket developed by NASA for the project of manned missions to Mars.
These photographs mix a historical and documentary approach to the space adventure with settings inspired by the cinema and the artist’s childhood memories. Spectacular as much by their narrative as by their pictorial scope, the photographs of the Space Utopia series are realized without photomontage and without filter.
They are set in the landscapes of Iceland, which have played an important role in the history of space exploration. In the 1960s, the Iceland Moon Mars Simulation Expedition sites, selected for their similarity and characteristics to the Moon, were used to train the astronauts of the Apollo mission. Today, its landscapes – sometimes extreme – are trodden by those who will participate in the next manned trips to the Moon and Mars.
Vincent Fournier goes to NASA — Film 17’54