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I consider photos as visual poems
Our visual environment consists of several elements forming tiny or gigantic masses of fast or very slow structures. Visible differently according to our movement in space and time, our state of mind, and their ability to absorb or reflect the light we perceive.
This information is processed quickly and follows one another in a constant visual flow, often trivialized.
But sometimes it is enough to accept and seek particular moments in this flow, to temporarily stop time in a fragile moment, because suspended in the light and the constraint of the dynamics of movements. There, the wonderful can appear in the form of plays of shadows and lights, lines and curves organizing the space to captivate our gaze, or even fleeting and precious moments of life from this fact.
When I move with the idea that this world is a constant source of these wonderful moments, I sometimes seize even in the depths of distress and shocking darkness of the world, contrasts, colors, geometries, human or animal attitudes, forming visual anecdotes, landscapes telling a story. An emotion can then be born.
Since the age of eight, I like to capture these moments to maintain my wonder and share it, well beyond simple family memories, first in wildlife photography, following in the footsteps of my father, a specialist in Alpine wildlife. Then, I gradually oriented my gaze towards a greater diversity of subjects, also integrating post-processing as a complementary means of expression.
I rarely work on photographic staging, except in the search for the right angle, preferring spontaneity, the sometimes incongruous moment, to the perfect where calculations fade emotion at first glance.
Later, in post-processing, I rework my shots to find the visual and especially emotional specificity of what I captured. Sometimes until saturation, until the caricature of my memory. This third stage, more graphic than photographic, makes me present myself more as a photo-graphist than as a photographer.
This approach makes me consider each successful photo as a visual poem.
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