Photography as a journey through life
The word photography comes from Ancient Greek: phôtós, meaning “light”, and gráphô, meaning “to write”. Photography therefore literally means “writing with light.”
This is the form of writing I have chosen to tell, in my own way, fragments of my story.
I do not simply photograph what happens to be in front of me. My subjects are often connected to what I have experienced, to the places that have shaped me, to the professions I have practised, and to the things that have awakened my curiosity or sensitivity.
Each series is therefore a meeting between a subject and a part of my personal journey.
The Perche Vendômois, for example, is the region where I was born. I spent the first two decades of my life there, in an environment deeply rooted in farming. Fields, country lanes and pollarded trees were simply part of the landscape of my everyday life.
Years later, returning to walk through this countryside with a camera became a way of reconnecting with something from those familiar landscapes. I began looking for trees that I had once known without really seeing them. Photographing them today is also a way of looking at them differently, through the eyes of someone who has experienced the passing of time.
My professional journey has also left its mark on the way I see.
The few years I spent working in the painting and decorating trade, as a colourist, profoundly developed my sensitivity to colour. Since then, colour has held a special place in my way of seeing. A particular shade, a combination of colours, or light falling across a surface can, in itself, become a reason to take a photograph.
My photographs are therefore perhaps, above all, a way of looking differently at what surrounds me.
They form a personal journal, but a journal without words, in which light, shapes, colours and places are given a voice.
Entering the images
I wanted Phonet to allow photographs to be viewed in conditions close to those of an exhibition.
At the end of each article, a thumbnail gallery provides an overview of the entire series. By clicking on a photograph, it opens full-screen against a completely black background.
I invite you to take the time to look at the images in this way. In this uncluttered space, the photograph can occupy the whole of your attention, without distraction.
Once in full-screen mode, you can use the keyboard arrows to move through the different images in the article.
Other series are currently in preparation. They will gradually become part of this photographic journal.
I invite you to enter this world, to look at the images, and perhaps to discover your own way of experiencing them.
