For several years now, the fashion supposedly ecological has been to make us believe that the essential thing lies in discourse. In everyday reality, the decisions being made are almost always beside the point. So many stupidities lead to other stupidities, when they are not entirely part of complete technocratic heresy. Ecology belongs neither to political parties nor to vague philosophies. The obligation for everyone, without exception, is to tune ourselves again to Nature, both in its concept and in its immense mechanism. Since time immemorial, the birth of the universe of living things has posed the problem of the struggle for survival, far removed from pure celestial physics. For every form of life, continuity depends on predation. Until now, all these permanent struggles functioned with more or less harmonious balances and a few deviations that were often fatal in cases of refusal to adapt.
But there it is: suddenly, through overpopulation and greed, Man (a little pretentious) has embarked on a project to modify the rules of the game. It should be noted that he has given himself considerable means to pursue this objective. The balance has been broken in order to ensure a rule acceptable to all. For some time now, current human extractions have involved losses of matter and energy for all the cycles of Life.
This new era, on a planetary level, has been named the Anthropocene. This new epoch in which the blunders of collective unconsciousness become irreparable errors, with the loss of centers of life indispensable to general survival and to the preservation of the human race in particular.
The most reliable testimonies to this collapse are owed to photography. Photographers, especially those who travel and expose themselves personally to risk, become precious witnesses to all the alarming degradations that they freeze in their images.
Alain Ernoult is one of the pillars of this band of adventurers whom nothing stops once they have an idea in mind, or even an intimate conviction. His wildlife photographs, portraits of endangered animals, have been exhibited from place to place for several years.
The author has decided to take the approach further by calling his own photographic works into question, so evident does the danger already seem to him.
A series of photographic images, revisited and stigmatized by their own author, to be discovered in La Baule until mid-June. It is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the realities of photography, certainly more credible than learned proclamations as brilliant as they are erratic.
Thierry Maindrault
EXHIBITION
THE ANTHROPOCENE
HUMANITY FACING ITS FOOTPRINT
LA BAULE ESCOUBLAC
Espace Culturel Chapelle Sainte-Anne
Place du Maréchal Leclerc
44500 LA BAULE [FRANCE]
May 9, 2026 through June 14, 2026.
open Tuesday through Friday from 2:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
open Saturday and Sunday 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and from 2:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
free admission
https://www.ernoult.com/
