French digital artist explores nature’s resilience amid human progress


Flora and fauna have long inspired Bancon, as reflected in his digital print 'Looks Like Mystery', where nature becomes both muse and metaphor. Photo: The Star/Azlina Abdullah

He resists being boxed in as merely a photographer or fine artist, though he moves fluidly between both worlds.

Francois Bancon’s art – shaped through the lens of a camera and the precision of a computer, rather than on paper, canvas, or any traditional medium – is not a bid for modernity, nor a play for relevance in this age of algorithms, doom-scrolling, and AI.

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