The Camera Obscura gallery presents a retrospective of Bernard Descamps. The director Didier Brousse gave us this text:
Photography is a kind of alambic in which, in its successive transformation chambers (the eye, the camera, the darkroom), is extracted the substance from the flow of images that passes through us every second and give them meaning. and presence.
It is an essence of the gaze, slowly distilled.
The material that feeds it is obviously essential, but the final result is obviously due to the work of the alambic, to the style developed over time by the artist.
Bernard Descamps is certainly a traveling photographer, keen to travel the world to find his subjects, under different skies, but he denies any documentary desire: “I produce images that tell nothing… I only travel to meet myself, to find my images, those that are in me and that I tirelessly try to bring out”.
