ENGLISH :
JULIE-CHRISTINE KRØVEL
A JOURNEY THROUGH VERSAILLES WITH SIX HASSELBLAD CAMERAS
I visited the premises of Chateau de Versailles for the first time in 1998, bringing along my first Hasselblad camera, the 500C. I immediately felt at home in the gardens. I went back the day after, and the day after that. I traveled back and forth in both the summer and autumn seasons over the last twenty years using the H1D, H2D, H3D, H4D and H6D-50c. There has never been any doubt about which camera I preferred and which camera system made me the most creative.
Norwegian-born and France-based, Julie-Christine Krøvel’s deep fascination with history brought her to the southern European country in the 1990s. Enchanted by the Chateau de Versailles, Julie-Christine began a photographic love affair with the historical palace grounds in 1998, shooting its photogenic angles with her 500C. Visiting it frequently for the last twenty years resulted in a beautifully unexpected collection of images using six different Hasselblad cameras.
JULIE'S HASSELBLADS
Exploring Versailles through the lens of her cameras, Julie’s images represent her photographic journey from one Hasselblad to the next. Starting with the analog 500C, Julie switched to her first digital camera, the H1D, in 2005 and slowly made her way through the H System, using the H2D, H3D, H4D, and H6D-50c to showcase the beauty of Versailles. “I love bringing both film and digital Hasselblads into the project; it’s totally different ways of working. At the start of my project, I used special cut medium format infrared color film with the 500C. In my digital images, I have kept the look of that film somehow, producing vivid and special colors,” says Julie. Expressing her vision through the colors captured with infrared colour film, Julie was able to stop time and display Versailles’ beauty from a surreal perspective.