I discovered David's work at Pictet Award 1st edition in 2008. I think he's terrific in showing the beauty of nature damages, trashes, wastes etc... whether they are still photos or landscapes. I know there's a debate...but talking Art, look at Burtynsky's "Quarries", Yao Lu's "New mountain and water" to mention just a few...His latest serie relates a somehow original background/"inspiration", as mentionned on his website:
"Library of Dust depicts individual copper canisters, each containing the cremated remains of patient from a state-run psychiatric hospital. The patients died at the hospital between 1883 (the year the facility opened, when it was called the Oregon State Insane Asylum) and the 1970’s; their bodies have remained unclaimed by their families
The prisoner’s use of the term “library” is apt. The room housing these canisters is an attempt for order, categorization, and rationality to be imposed upon randomness, chaos, and the irrational. The canisters, however, insistently and continually change their form over time; they are chemical and alchemical sites of transformation, both organic and mineralogical, living and dead. The Library of Dust describes this labyrinth, and in doing so, gives form to the forgotten"
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