It is July 9, 2016.
While travelling from Marseille to Toulouse, I decide to make a stop in Sète, a maritime town located roughly halfway along my journey. This Mediterranean coastal town was once part of my everyday life, as I lived there a few years earlier. The idea of rediscovering its canals, its basins and its maritime atmosphere is therefore particularly appealing to me. It is also an opportunity to see a town I once knew in a different way, this time through my camera.
When I arrive in the town centre, I park beside the canal on Quai de l’Aspirant-Herber. I am immediately immersed in the atmosphere I had come to rediscover. The light is particularly strong, with the sun almost directly overhead — ideal conditions for taking a few photographs that capture something of this town I am so fond of.
I then head towards the first street perpendicular to the quay, Rue Richelieu. At the end of this small street stands a warehouse with its gate open. I discover my first photograph there: all the colours seem to come together, with the Saint-Louis lighthouse in the background (see above). A little further on, the mooring office, standing alone beside the canal, catches my attention in turn. It naturally becomes the subject of my second photograph (see below).
At the end of this visit, only five photographs will be selected. Only five images, but they clearly highlight what characterises this maritime town in my eyes: the water, the basins, the port facilities, and above all the richness of the colours that are such a part of Sète’s identity. This short stop, made during a single day, allowed me to rediscover a few fragments of a town I once knew as part of my everyday life. I am very pleased to be able to share them with you today through these few images.
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