March 2019 I hung up my cameras. Tired of their weight and the uncertainty of the end of the month. Photo was finished, over, forgotten, this “thing” that for 40 years had accompanied me every day, with joys and disappointments. In the space of a few weeks I sold all of my equipment, cameras, optics, lighting, flash I sold to the highest bidder … Just before closing my suitcase for the holidays on the Landes coast I found at the bottom of a drawer this Canon Prima AS1, the very first shockproof and waterproof camera (3 meters) put on the market, at its side 3 rolls of expired film. In a reflex I slipped all in a pocket of my bag. As a beach book I had taken “the use of the photo of Annie Ernaux” , I was curious of the analysis that this author could write on the subject. At the end of this literary essay, I loaded the camera and let my subconscious guide my eyes.
