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Présentation

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STATEMENT

First of all, I’d like to say that my works are based on reality observation and my journeys. Nevertheless, I prefer to consider the
future; things which are detached from the present. I think it’s easy to get lost in all the tracks I provide.I take some elements of nature
and towns. I select certain details, reproduce them, and reject some other… Paradoxally, I like to fear myself when I see nature
collapsing before my eyes: I see so many weak moments. But I like to also fear myself when I realize in spite of some singular elements,
all the European cities I walked through tend to look the same.

Some of my works are clearly inspired by Picturialism; French naturalist photography but also and to a certain extent by surrealist
photography and other influences. Other works are Bernd and Hilla Bechert friendly, but where they keep their entire constructions, I
prefer to select some details.What else should I say I’m a music addict, it’s a perfect drug. I gave you some guidelines, but maybe I
shouldn’t have as I prefer people who discover on their own. Why should I help people understand?
Do we really need to explain how some pictures really move people?

Most of the time, I use several techniques; including Argentic photography and digital photography. The digital production I consider
cannot and dœs not have to be conceived as a single pure media. Unlike artists who work exclusively on and through the Web the
following works exist out of the digital system they originally came from. This way it’s also possible to keep the photography for what it
is. But sometimes I like to mix my photography with other techniques, such as pastel to make patchworks or collages

With this kind of language, I hope to communicate a sort of equation: in the nature, like in chemistry, nothing’s really lost just
transformed. The same gœs for cites: it’s hard to keep that irremovable, many of them are as untouchable as we may think. Also,
while speaking of nature and cities, I speak also about myself, my fears among other things. I hope I’ll be a little more free (insight
stories)