Wittner fabrice biography
Back in Fabrice created his first light stencil work in New Zealand as a tribute to the souls lost in the Christchurch earthquake.
Apparently Wittner redraws images of Inuits (based on old photographs) onto leather tarps and cuts out various sections, creating a stencil....
Fabrice Wittner is an artist with a cause.
Well known for his interest in raising awareness and prevention for climate change, the French artist and photographer found a way to bring together two of his passions: art and activism. Through a combination of environmentally friendly leatherette stencils atop low-pollution prints, Wittner turns breathtaking photos of the Northern Lights into an homage on Inuit iconography.
Wittner’s project “The Northern Lights – L’ Âme du Nord” is a stunning collection of vibrant photos.
The prints could certainly stand alone on their artistic merit, but Wittner takes his process a step further, by superimposing Inuit images on top of the prints and then illuminating them with a light source such as a small torch.
The result is a beautiful tribute to traditional Inuit culture and life in the Arctic that seems to leap out of the print.
On his profile on Bēhance, the artist says the project is “an invitatio