We are One
My lives of adventure, the realities on the ground, the insurrections finally came.
I began my observations and photographic testimonies on our planet earth in 2007, with the desire to be at the heart of men, at the heart of history.
See and learn to see. Far from tourists and comfort zones.
90 countries later, the language of images seems more and more important to me in our time.
But in reality, it has been a century since the diagnosis was made: The world is in crisis.
If Adventure could be a cure for our societies. It allowed me to go beyond my prejudices.
If adventure is only action, if it is only extreme sport, muscular gesticulation, that doesn’t interest me enough.
In its complete dimension, it also includes reflection on the principles that guide it; it has a spiritual and philosophical dimension.
This is what literature allows us to formulate and share, just like photography, this universal language.
From Cuba to Israel, where children think about playing, while we program an ever more distant world, from Bogota to Antananarivo, to India where everyone’s stakes are sometimes survival, where infrastructure is lacking, the quest for Love and freedom remain a universal and well-being issue.
Black and white as an interface to our duality, shadow to light, from our joys to our sadness, from our strengths to our weaknesses, let us be one: “We are One”.
I will end with the words of Patrice Franceschi: “If, as I see it, a life is worth more by its trajectory than by its salient points,
a whole life towards the fulfillment of the only dream that can realize the thirst for the unknown, become an adventurer and fulfill this dream
that at maturity, how can we not welcome this when Spinoza humbly said that we must persevere in our being.”
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