The Eye of Photography presents a new chapter of “Carte Blanche” with the support of MPB. . Each month, a French photographer will present an original series produced with equipment loaned by the international platform for buying, selling and trading used photo and video equipment.
Vic Orth captures love and intimacy. In a distant memory, her father entrusted her with an old camera, igniting a lasting, tender attachment to analog photography. The series “What She Sows” captures the essence of fragments from a loving reality, leaving traces of each memory like an overlapping portrait of “us.”
“What She Sows”
“A heap of clothes on the floor of my room. Fragments of her accumulate day after day.
I photograph the traces she leaves around her, close to me; I notice them on the floor of my room, on our skin, on our sheets. Everywhere, memory spaces.
Throughout our relationship, my gaze focuses on her gestures, our intimacy, and the daily emotions and atmospheres from here and there. Embracing, curling up together, touching, drifting apart, reuniting.
At times, she takes control of the lens, transforming me into her subject. Her gaze envelops me, allowing me to express myself through my identity.
‘What She Sows’ is a collection of shared images, but also an affirmation of queer love as a space for tenderness, healing, and freedom.
Working with analog photography, I had the opportunity to use lenses provided by MPB (Sony FDR-AX33 4K, Pentax SMC-DA 50mm f/1. et Pentax HD Pentax-D FA 35mm f/2) . I envisioned 35mm shots to complement this series. I could capture these atmospheres, adding them to portraits, tighter frames, and fragments of daily life.”
Vic Orth
Born in 2002 in Lyon, Vic Orth began working in analog photography as an assistant for Gil Rigoulet, former photojournalist for Le Monde and an artist. Rigoulet introduced her to the joys of developing photos at home, while her own photography focused on studying bodies (series “Body to Body”) and what they reveal. The body, in her own words, becomes “a place of memory, a material that bears the traces of time, relationships, love, and struggles.”
Her previous series, “Body to Body,” hinted at what would later evolve into What She Sows, featuring her close circle in her work. “My images highlight bodies; their lines, their uniqueness. Intimate, these moments of shooting feel like a journey with myself, discovering the abundance and possibilities of gender and self,” a theme that continues in this new series featured here.
Her prints are currently exhibited at Artazart bookstore/gallery and The Analog Club in Paris.
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