For the past fifteen years, Stéphane Mahé has been conducting an intimate and pictorial photographic work that reveals an interior journey that is both timeless and free. His series Somewhere unfolds a powerful dreamlike and cinematic universe where wandering becomes a photographic quest.
“It’s a place where time is fading. A place where the physical contours of matter disappear. Here photography finds the delicacy of the nineteenth century pictorialists. In his proposal, Stéphane Mahé opens a window on an impalpable elsewhere and invites us to take a step aside, in search of a second reality. Somewhere on the edge of the world. The place, the time does not matter … Here, he/she who looks interprets, invents, tells his/her story.
Somewhere is a sequence of images that are articulated like a feverish breath in which each photograph is autonomous and offers the possibility of a beginning.
Somewhere is of course somewhere: somewhere between yesterday and tomorrow, somewhere between the corner of the street and the end of the field; a place familiar and yet, with a small detail, so different, that we want to slowly get lost.
Photographer for fifteen years, founding member of 360 ouest agency specializing in 360 ° spherical photography, Stéphane Mahé has for some time practiced extensively the 360 ° photo and collaborated punctually with various information websites. The desire to move towards a more personal photography gave birth to a first collaboration with Editions de Juillet and Arnaud Le Gouëfflec for the book Terminus Saint-Malo in the collection Villes Mobiles and various exhibitions. Today, the photographic adventure continues with the series Somewhere: an eponymous book was published by Éditions de Juillet in 2018, and the series was exhibited in 2019 at the Bidouane Tower in Saint-Malo, at the Promenades Photographiques de Vendôme, at the Bookstore Dialogues in Brest …
Stéphane Mahé : Somewhere
from December 14, 2019 to January 04, 2020
Galerie L’Imagerie
19 rue Jean Savidan
22300 Lannion
