Conques Sainte-Foy

Markus Brunetti has been working on this project for ten years. Some of the images have been constructed over that entire time.

Brunetti studies each church, cathedral, and cloister he photographs closely before taking hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of frames during similar light and weather conditions. He shoots everything from a street-level perspective without cranes or drones and then, along with Schoener, he mounts and reconstructs the facades “in our own intensive process of composition” that allows for the viewer to appreciate all of the intricate details of the structures.

David Rosenburg, Behold, Slate Magazine.

"They challenge the viewer to take the time to carefully observe them, and not to succumb to the habit of rapid consumption so common to our media-driven, visually addicted society."

Printed and displayed at large scale, they invite pondering.