Artist Statement

As each project requires its own approach, every gallery starts with its own statement. But there are of course general trends in my approach to photography:

Simplicity. I want to see the world in the most direct, most non-lyrical and therefore most simple way: I'm not interested in making mannered or "iconic" pictures intended to please quickly (and probably forgotten as fast). That's why I favor a dose of distance and quietness, expecting from the viewer to spend time on a photograph.

Ambiguity. I feel close to documentary photography, though I try to avoid pure or "neutral" documents: I'm primarily interested in exploring and revealing layers of ambiguity contained in the world around, hopefully finding something insightful out of it. For that, I just attempt to be as receptive and aware as possible to what surrounds me.

Reality? I'm foremost interested in a photography that deals with reality. I'm fully aware that a photograph will never depict "the truth", but I still need this link with reality, with the world around, if only because it makes every picture essentially ambiguous and incomplete, and therefore interesting.

Thin Lines. When making photographs, I try to walk on the thin lines separating simplicity from blandness, visual interest from visual seduction, intellectual richness from overintellectualization, non-lyricism from contempt.

Short Bio

I'm a French fine art photographer. Born in 1979, I spent my childhood in the French Alps first, then in the city of Poitiers.

I'm currently living and working in Berlin (Germany) after having lived for a few years in Leipzig.

I'm entirely self-taught in photography. My (unrelated) studies took place in Poitiers (France), Wrocław (Poland) and then Paris.

Contact

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