CHAMONIX
Sublime pictures of extreme sportsmen in the valley exhibited in Argentière
19-February-2021
Photographer Elliott Mazzola, who has been based in Chamonix for ten years, exhibits at the Maison de village his most beautiful photos of the valley and of its most daring athletes.
Elliott Mazzola has been frequenting the Chamonix Valley for almost a decade with one of his lenses. This American, who has worked many seasonal jobs, has always adored capturing the movement and the daring of extreme sports enthusiasts in the sector. Until March 31, he exhibits and sells his favorite photographs at the Maison de Village in Argentière an exhibition entitled "Chamonix Extreme" which mixes exceptional landscapes and moments of high aerobatics.
From the snowboarder Camille Armand to the birdmen piloting their wingsuits from the summit of Brévent, Elliott Mazzola's photos are based on the dichotomy between freedom and fear. “My photographs frame feats of human excellence in the context of their marvelous earthly backdrops,” explains this adventurer, who crossed the entire length of the Alps on foot last summer, from Monaco to Vienna.
“There are few moments that exude more tension between the mastery of nature and the fragility of life than when a human being leaps from the edge of a mountaintop cliff, with nothing but a parachute strapped to their back and thousands of feet to fall,” says the man who parachuted every day to reach the Swiss bar where he worked for a whole summer. "In my photographs I attempt to illuminate, for the uninitiated, this contradictory flood of thought and emotion that accompanies such bold activities."
A fresco of this Chamonix extreme that daredevils all over the world dream of one day to rub shoulders.
BIOGRAPHY
American, Elliott Mazzola studied at Wheaton College in Boston. A graduate in philosophy, he decided to forgo an academic career to travel. From the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Patagonia to the Trans-Siberian via the Great Wall of China and the Himalayas, this backpacker is capable of sleeping in caves or under the stars and always has his camera with him. When he arrived in Chamonix ten years ago, he worked with Philip Fragnol and Didier Lafond, two legends of extreme sports imagery.
Sublime pictures of extreme sportsmen in the valley exhibited in Argentière
19-February-2021
Photographer Elliott Mazzola, who has been based in Chamonix for ten years, exhibits at the Maison de village his most beautiful photos of the valley and of its most daring athletes.
Elliott Mazzola has been frequenting the Chamonix Valley for almost a decade with one of his lenses. This American, who has worked many seasonal jobs, has always adored capturing the movement and the daring of extreme sports enthusiasts in the sector. Until March 31, he exhibits and sells his favorite photographs at the Maison de Village in Argentière an exhibition entitled "Chamonix Extreme" which mixes exceptional landscapes and moments of high aerobatics.
From the snowboarder Camille Armand to the birdmen piloting their wingsuits from the summit of Brévent, Elliott Mazzola's photos are based on the dichotomy between freedom and fear. “My photographs frame feats of human excellence in the context of their marvelous earthly backdrops,” explains this adventurer, who crossed the entire length of the Alps on foot last summer, from Monaco to Vienna.
“There are few moments that exude more tension between the mastery of nature and the fragility of life than when a human being leaps from the edge of a mountaintop cliff, with nothing but a parachute strapped to their back and thousands of feet to fall,” says the man who parachuted every day to reach the Swiss bar where he worked for a whole summer. "In my photographs I attempt to illuminate, for the uninitiated, this contradictory flood of thought and emotion that accompanies such bold activities."
A fresco of this Chamonix extreme that daredevils all over the world dream of one day to rub shoulders.
BIOGRAPHY
American, Elliott Mazzola studied at Wheaton College in Boston. A graduate in philosophy, he decided to forgo an academic career to travel. From the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Patagonia to the Trans-Siberian via the Great Wall of China and the Himalayas, this backpacker is capable of sleeping in caves or under the stars and always has his camera with him. When he arrived in Chamonix ten years ago, he worked with Philip Fragnol and Didier Lafond, two legends of extreme sports imagery.