Tadao Cern

For Comfort Zone, Tadao Cern used a camera propped on a pole to capture sunbathers dozing on a Baltic Sea beach. He then placed large formats of his snapshots on Vevey’s rooftops and flew a drone equipped with an HD camera over them. Thanks to immersion goggles, visitors could follow live what the pilot was looking at and peek at those unsuspecting vacationers. This was a first for Festival Images, experimenting the artistic and scenographic potential of a new technology that is breaking ground in terms of the way we look at things and how we photograph, at a time when the legal issues related to drones are gradually being lifted.