Your first photographic memory, the first emotion.
John Divola’s Zuma series during my exchange in Los Angeles during my studies at the Beaux-Arts. It presents architectural spaces open onto hypnotic landscapes in which the artist intervened graphically in order to create paintings that tend towards the abstract. These images opened me up to photography and its possible transcendence of reality.
The photographer who sparked your passion.
Jeff Wall for his so poetic and at the same time so precise way of describing and transforming reality. His gaze on man and his environment is very accurate, but also very sensitive. Beyond the image, it prolongs the moment and makes us travel in other realities.
Your first photograph.
It was in India, an image taken from the train, between Delhi and Bombay, an abandoned concrete structure, a trace of man in a contemplative landscape. I called these forms: the silent forms. A first series that questioned me about the place of man in his contemporary environment through the poetry of forms, an approach that has never left me.
Your most beautiful photographic memory.
For the FAILLES project, the moment when, by surprise, Mount Sakurajima erupted and I had the chance to photograph the event, will remain unforgettable, shared between infinite joy and fear of this volcanic eruption.
The worst photographic memory.
In difficult times, there is always something that ends up happening and sometimes even something we did not expect, and which becomes a nice surprise. Not really bad moments for me, or they have changed since!
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