Inspired by the immensity of the surface of salted waters hiding an underworld. Man tries to resist this natural force over time, anchoring fragile buoys and docks.
These photographs play with horizontal and vertical lines, with the horizon : the limits of the sky, the sea and the land; uncatchable parallels becoming tangent when they touch the seashore buildings …
Once, as I was walking round the Pointe du Moulinet, in Dinard. I was struck by the graphic aspect of this place : everything I could look at was a game of contrast and shapes. A seaside geometry.
No one around me, I could be in a dream …
Seaside geometry
When I am creating, I look for an inner balance in myself in which I am almost out of time. At the same time author and spectator, I am careful not to control everything appart from the technical aspects of photography. It is important to me to keep a distance with my work because you must keep in mind that these pictures will be seen completely out of their context. If I am too focused on what I am doing. On what I intend to shoot, the result is often unsatisfactory afterwards. Likewise, I chose my photos for editing in a very instinctive way. I can wait several month before knowing exactly what I wanted to show and how I want to show it. I do very little editing, the less as possible, and I am very rigorous in my choises.
Other series
Westward
Last series of photographs, dedicated to the West, the new world : terminal The Dune du Pilat, near Arcachon on the French Atlantic coast. A long Dune of soft and gentle sand moving under the wind. The Atlantic ocean on one side and a pine tree canopy looking like an other ocean on the other side.
I need colour !
Morning mist
Thickness of the air, subtle differences from white to light touches of colours in a timeless landscape where every part is isolated from the rest.
Lone icon, peaceful and bright.
A beach, a wood, a boat, a man, a woman, everything gets back to this particular time of a shared moment : the common glance of the photographer and of the spectators.
The misty feelings of these photographs try to raise my questions about our perception of the world now, as well as the complexity of a projection into the future.