Category Archives: Photography
Image“Garage life” series #1
This is how I wipe my brushes when I pinstripe with one shot paint.
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Tagged brush, custom, louis david najar, one shot paint, Photography, pinstripe, wipe
The Roast Beef
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Photos © Louis David Najar 2012
Posted in custom, louis david najar, Manufacture, motorcycle, Photography, pictures, portrait, Studio Shots
Tagged boardtrack, children of decadecne, craftmanship, custom, engine, indoor, inspiration, moped, motobecane SP98, motorcycle, Photography, rebuilt, roast beef
Crushed Cans
This particular story is not about beauty itself. It’s a bout what we see, or what we believe we see.
In the beginning, all soda cans are identical in shape; we just see them as cans, with the purpose of containing liquids we want to spill down our throats. When they get empty, they loose their purpose so we thrown them, in the bin, or in the street.
To make this photo shoot happen, I had to have a different attitude regarding my daily paths. I had to look down and pay attention to the side of the road to find these cans; I had to operate a change in the way I looked at the streets, and it was very interesting realizing that if you change your perspective you are able to find love and beauty wherever you’d like.
These bits of aluminum were all crushed under cars, and they all have their own story. Look carefully and you will notice that they are all different. This is exactly how I feel about humans today : we are all the same, but we are unable to see or accept the differences. We only see what’s in front of us, we only hear what we want to hear; it has become very difficult to be an individual character. People just want to be like the movie stars they admire. They want to look like their references, instead of finding their own personal legend. It is surely easier and reassuring to be like the neighbor. By wanting to look like others, they just want to remain invisible. They want to be seen as acceptable, but really what they want is to be accepted. They try to belong to a group or a society, and they believe that originality comes from outer style. But it doesn’t; being a true original comes from inside the heart and soul. The outer appearance is just a shell.
The purpose of this work is not esthetic, it’s philosophical. If you are able to recognize the individuality of all these cans, you understand their individual story. They were all crushed, and they all ended up on the tar, but still they remain unique.
We all come from the same place, and we’ll end the same way, six feet under. We are all crushed by life experiences. But are we able to look beyond, and recognize our luck in the universe, as being an individual mind with its own choices ?
I sincerely hope that you understand my words as much as the photographic idea of reproducing an image several times in order to demonstrate the similarity and difference between them.
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Tagged cans, crushed, louis david najar, Photography, studio
Leica Polo
Posted in BIKE POLO, black & white, film scan, Kodak, louis david najar, Photography, pictures, portrait
Tagged hardcourt bike polo, invalides, leica, louis david najar, Paris, polo, portraits, scene
Children of decadence : One shot at life
you only get one shot at life.
for this reason, I photograph, and for the same reason, Thom and his mate Max both work on a motorcycle custom project. This is the result of 2 days in the garage with them.
Finishing a project for the HUSZ exhibition next thursday in Paris, I joined the “Children of decadence” for a week end, few shots, a bit of help, some beers and a good laugh.
All pictures on Mamiya 645
Posted in black & white, custom, film scan, louis david najar, motorcycle, Photography, pictures, pinstripe, portrait, project, street shots, travel
Tagged 645, children of decadence, custom, louis david najar, mamiya, moped, motorcycle, motorcycle club, Photography, project, suzuki, Vans, vernon
Au cimetière avec mon pére
(at the graveyard with my old man)
my father asked me to go with him to Bagneux Cemetary – For some reason I decided that I should take pictures that day, so I loaded my Leica C1 with a Kodak Plus X 40 year old film.
I had some issues with the film itself, and had to open the back of the camera several times.
I managed to process the film and scanned the pictures that made sense.
Inside Out
A closer insight to the interiors of my building.
Posted in Architecture, louis david najar, Photography, pictures
Tagged architecture, louis david najar