I have always been interested in framing and using a camera. Here you can see some series of photographies I have taken.
the rat king - brighton - 2022
One single shot captured where shapes and reflections merge showcasing a silhouette. Somehow something a bit “Hitchcock” about this photo. The white natural lighting overexposed in the background contrasts with the warmth of the yellow in the middle ground giving life to the silhouette. It creates an eerie and dreamy feeling. The reflection blurs the line between the construct and the render of the framing like a window inviting to have a peek inside another window, creating a pathway between impressions and surrealism.
The devil passed through here - SCOTLAND - 2021
This location was fascinating for the eyes and the soul. Maybe because of the contrast of the bright greens from the leaves and the moss covering the high grey cliffs. Maybe because of a vague feeling of uneasiness planning among the isolated and secretive cove, murmuring to the ones who venture that it wishes to be left alone. But most importantly, the red brownish bloody water toying with the mind, warning the explorer that he will never leave. A place with a treachearous peacefulness where the wind doesn’t dare. You can hear here a whistling coming from the far beyond, unnatural and hypnotizing. Maybe a place where the devil satisfies his hunger and where the dead converse at night.
Once we were there too - New orleans - 2019
In a very evocative way and maybe inspired by “Enter The Void of Gaspard Noe”, this serie shows what used to be and is no longer, foggy memories, reminiscence of an old time. It’s somehow the story of an attachment, how its hard to cut the strings that connected us to our own reality. It depicts that with the eyes of the wanderers, exploring a spooky side of New Orleans, showcasing my fascination to strange atmospheres again. I am using only my cellphone GalaxyS9+ camera, the serie embraces cold colors and as a sub text, suggest hints of the New Orleans culture.
shapes - Geneva - 2018
Shapes is a reconnection with the photography medium as I recently got my Fujifilm XT1 back. It is inspired by the Erik Satie’s Gymnopedies N.1 Lent et Douloureux, N.3 Lent et grave and the Gnossienne 1-3 N.1. The approach may be more conceptual and the result minimalistic as the two series Green and Blue only purpose is: To question our relationship to shapes, to patterns and our surroundings, to negative space.
The series questions: How do we read patterns? The negative space shapes the form, giving it a new perception. How do they intertwines with their surroundings? Do they belong where they lie? How de we fantasise about them? Do we carry this fantasy over when we notice them? The framing takes the role of the imagination where the content is the mind. The thought is just the medium. Where we can singularise stories or patterns tied within a city or a landscape, are those just strangers to us, meaningless, without any function and interpretation or do they become, on the contrary, familiar and heartwarming, almost nostalgic?
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the lost ones - Tel aviv - 2017
oppressive vastness - morroco - 2016
Playing with a pretty standard horitonzatilty in the framing, the title of the serie is almost a contradiciton on it’s own. Experiencing the infinite horizon of a landscape automatically triggers a sense of petiteness, isolation, loneliness, and therefor led to self questionning the instinct of our own survival. The scarcity of human being in those dry environments shaped by a never ending horizon is scary. Where does it end? And yet the series always offers some barriers, making the mind wondering about whats above and beyond or behind the massive rock or sand formation. Does the lack of direction nurtures a feeling of mental exhaustion? And yet the contemplation was met in every seconds of the timeframe.
It was all a dream - vancouver - 2015
This serie is exploring the theme of the dream, a common and shared sensory experience altough such a personnal, treasured from our mondain life experience. Walking at night was a bit like that in Vancouver. A dream is fragments of uncertain memories, consciousness, hidden secrets and many more mysteries absorbing material from the many chambers of the mind. The night setting plays with saturated darks and out of focus long take, giving a bit a motion to the photos. The lights illuminating the city offering some guidance act as a reminder that each dream is its own experience. At the end of the four photo serie awaits a brutal reality, the choc of the awakening, as it was really all a dream.
Belles Bruxelles - Brussels - 2010
Belles Bruxelles is a first reaction where I moved to Brussels in Belgium. It is a simple and illustrative series, depicting a little bit of absurdity and the disorder which takes over the city.
DIPTYCHS - the eyes are the mirror of the soul - Neuchatel /Geneva - 2008
This series took place when I was studying philosophy and anthropology in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. It was one of the first series I have made and I was regardless of technical consideration. This series reflects more my state of mind during this period. Taking the approach of the participant-observer in ethnography, my goal was to let people drive me while taking pictures of a place that we would define together after discussing and a portrait of themselves in this precise place as if the place and the person were conversing silently.
CONFUSION - Geneva state Hospital - 2009
Confusion is a series that explores the boundary between film and photography. Questioning the theme of identity, a woman wakes up in a hospital room and observes objects that define the identity of the place, as if it was her first time, looking for landmarks in a cold universe made of steel. The woman starts to feel anxiety and fears to loose herself. She wanders around, explores and examines elaborately every objects, which are captured in close-up, where everything seems new. In the bathroom though, she finds something personal and reassuring.
