Daily Life
Here is a selection of portraits & landscapes. There is no common theme.
I took pictures of my family and my hometown, friends, models, and strangers. There are also photos of the place I have been visiting the past few years, for work, studies, and traveling.
It’s a spontaneous and ongoing selection so stay tuned for more pictures!
For more details about each picture, click on it.
2012 to 2021
WORK IN PROGRESS…
Bribes de l’enfance (Childhood Portraits)
For several months (from January 2020 to December 2020), I was supported by Les Ateliers Médicis, to carry out a new personal project.
During these months, I worked in the town of Adriers (86) and organized 20 workshops in an elementary school (the François Albert school). With students aged 7 to 11, we learned and created around the theme of film photography and portrait. We’ve made Polaroids, large-format portraits, developed film with coffee, and prints on black and white art papers. It was a very rewarding and intense experience. Working with children and the desire to pass on a passion and expertise was one of the main concerns of this residence.
I completed my personal project in December 2020. The Coronavirus crisis stopped my production a bit but I was still able to make few photographs:
This series explores in a documentary and intimate way, the space of the child at home. The place where his personality is best defined. I wanted to meet the families and see the children (with whom I had already worked for several months) at home, in their intimacy and create a sincere and almost poetic portrait of their childhood.
It is an ongoing project, which will continue over the years and regions - to provide a consistent series and a global portrait of current childhood.
With the support of Ateliers Médicis, the Création en Cours program, the Ministère de la Culture and the support of the Ministère de l’Éducation - WORK IN PROGRESS…
Family Portrait
At the elementary school, when the bell rings and the day's over, the kids pack up and get ready to go home. It's the end of the afternoon and they will soon be reunited with their parents, sisters or brothers. These families often meet at the same time, at the school or in front of the gate. Parents are waiting for their children to finally return home. This moment allows both groups to come together.
For this project, I wanted to take advantage of this moment of meeting to create family portraits. The child finds his father, mother, both together or separated. His brother or sister. It can be the whole family or not. I wanted to put an element (the desk) that could allow the group to install in its own way for the portrait and to decide the moment of the photo.
This experience allowed some families to make group portraits all together, which seemed to be a rarity for most.
What interests me in family portraits, in the form of series, is to admire the small details, the looks, the poses of people. We could imagine their stories through all these details.
Portraits made in Poitiers, in the district of Bellejouanne with the support of CAP SUD.
digital - 2015
Huit et Demi
Epic boredom captured during the two months of quarantine in a small flat in Poitiers, joined by the best partner ever!
35mm film - Story made between April & May 2020.
Unknown
My first project was made in early 2013. These are portraits of strangers who have been encountered on a single day.
The idea of the project was to have these people pose without artifice and in the most neutral way possible, getting closer to the style of the identity photos. Subsequently, the images were distributed in large format and the models quickly confronted their image, creating very expressive and varied reactions.
What does a face tell?
How does light, framing and how to present a portrait transform a person into a character?
digital - 2013
