Silent World, Angel of the waters fountain, Central Park, New York city

Silent World, Paris church

"Silent World" is a series of photographs from Paris-based photographers Lucie and Simon. Both self-taught artists reveal a talent unique and magical. No wonder. Simon worked first as an  assistant for artists Francois-Marie Banier and Peter Lindbergh. And "Silent World" was awarded by the Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet Foundation prize and received a Grant from the CICRP center Marseille, European Year of Culture 2013. From New York and Paris to Beijing and Italy, these photographs depict some of the world's most recognizable public outdoor spaces vacated. A post-human world manifests its presence, reveals energies well hidden.

Silent World, Cour carree du Louvre, Paris

Silent World, Tian'anmen square, Beijing, China

Silent World, Madison square, New York city

"In the Silent World" project, we wanted to study and transform our world's most symbolic metropolises into imaginary, fictional, impossible places. In our work, we always try to study and put into image the frontier between reality and the world of dreams. Our desire was to put the viewers into a pazzling and uncomfortable place, pushing him to put into question notions of time and space, but mostly our role and position towars the becoming of our world".

Silent World, Times square, New York city

"From a technical point of view, we wanted to do a projcet mixing two periods of History of Photography. The beginning of Photography's techniques in the 19th century by realizing a single very long exposure image of several hours. This way all elements in movement (cars, persons, etc) disappear. We develped a black filter for our camera, which is usally used in Astronomy for analyzing stars and space and which doesn't allow the camera to receive enough light, therefore needs several hours to record one image.

From their on, we do "classical" images of a fraction of a second, and start working on the several days mixing all these details so that the final image looks like an instant, a frozen moment stolen from an imaginary world...".

Silent World, China world trade center  

Silent World, Woman in Manhattan

Silent World, Baie de Saint Brieuc, Côtes-d'-Armor, France

Silent World, Radio city music hall, New York city

Silent World, Rockfeller center, New York city

Silent World, Wall street, New York city

Silent World, Chaoyangmen passage, Beijing

All photos Courtesy of the artists

www.lucieandsimon.com