“What is singular about my journey, is the detour I had to take, to express my vision of color, using argentic photography process.” A neophyte or too fast a look on my work, of my poppies for example, may suggest that it is simply color photography, in the continuity of a process developed in the 1930s and 1940s, Kodachrome, Agfacolor and Ektachrome . It is not so.
Even though I had used the traditional color for my commercial photography work, it was not suitable for my research on nature. Color is very subjective, everyone perceives reality with their own sensitivity. I wanted to approach this color dimension in a more personal way, which was important to me was rather to go towards the poetic spirit of the color … “.
Denis Brihat
Neuflize OBC acquired for its Collection in 2018 two prints of the Poppies.
