I have always been interested in framing and using a camera. Here you can see some series of photographies I have taken.
If the Walls could talk - SCOTLAND - 2025
There is something unique about Wick - perhaps the fact that it’s a quiet town up north in the Highlands, or its old port history.
But more particularly, it’s a texture, a color, a tint that fades over it. Like the perpetual movement of the clocks, the silent ticks are noticeable. They have had a few centuries to tell a story and made sure never to be forgotten - tracing their own existence on the town’s surface and remaining.
The walls could tell you about the workers who suffered from monkey shoulder, the labor of the art of shoveling barley. Or maybe they would tell you how some of them workers would discreetly bring home a small bottle of a high - percentage beverage - not to be consumed daily for one’s own sanity.
If you kind enough to listen, they could tell you their own tale of how they became black, how the vapor held its own secrets, and how they remember the one who once were there.
A transformation - a mushroom, born out of creation, made its own way across the foundations of the old distillery, spreading through the town, painting it following its own design. The walls remember.
This series captures an intended horizontal framing with short shutter speed and small aperture, telling the story of a place by extracting one of its unique components and making it the main narrative thread of this visual six-picture series, where time meets decay - playing with vertical lines that break the form of horizontality, adding a bit of playfulness.
The Rat king - Brighton - 2022
One single shot captured where shapes and reflections merge showcasing a silhouette.
Somehow something a bit “Hitchcock” about this photo.
The white natural lighting overexposed in the background contrasts with the warmth of the yellow in the middle ground giving life to the silhouette. It creates an eerie and dreamy feeling.
The reflection blurs the line between the construct and the render of the framing like a window inviting to have a peek inside another window, creating a pathway between impressions and surrealism.
The Devil Passed Through Here - SCOTLAND - 2021
This location was fascinating for the eyes and the soul. Maybe because of the contrast of the bright greens from the leaves and the moss covering the high grey cliffs.
Maybe because of a vague feeling of uneasiness planning among the isolated and secretive cove, murmuring to the ones who venture that it wishes to be left alone. But most importantly, the red brownish bloody water toying with the mind, warning the explorer that he will never leave.
A place with a treachearous peacefulness where the wind doesn’t dare. You can hear here a whistling coming from the far beyond, unnatural and hypnotizing. Maybe a place where the devil satisfies his hunger and where the dead converse at night.
Once we were there too - New orleans - 2019
In a very evocative way and maybe inspired by “Enter The Void of Gaspard Noe”, this serie shows what used to be and is no longer, foggy memories, reminiscence of an old time. It’s somehow the story of an attachment, how its hard to cut the strings that connected us to our own reality.
It depicts that with the eyes of the wanderers, exploring a spooky side of New Orleans, showcasing my fascination to strange atmospheres again. I am using only my cellphone GalaxyS9+ camera, the serie embraces cold colors and as a sub text, suggest hints of the New Orleans culture.
Shapes - Geneva - 2018
Shapes is a reconnection with the photography medium as I recently got my Fujifilm XT1 back.
It is inspired by the Erik Satie’s Gymnopedies N.1 Lent et Douloureux, N.3 Lent et grave and the Gnossienne 1-3 N.1.
The approach may be more conceptual and the result minimalistic as the two series Green and Blue only purpose is:
To question our relationship to shapes, to patterns and our surroundings, to negative space.
The series naively questions: How do we read patterns?
The negative space shapes the form, giving it a new perception. How do they intertwines with their surroundings?
Do they belong where they lie? How de we fantasise about them? Do we carry this fantasy over when we notice them?
The framing takes the role of the imagination where the content is the mind.
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Where we can single out stories or patterns woven into a city or a landscape, are they merely strangers to us - meaningless, without function or interpretation? Or do they, on the contrary, become familiar and heartwarming, evoking a lost yet comforting sense of impossible nostalgia, as if we already knew them - shaped by collective consciousness or a logical appropriation that cements the standard human thought process and behavior when facing the unknown?
The lost ones - Tel aviv - 2017
Oppressive Vastness - Morroco - 2016
Playing with a pretty standard horitonzatilty in the framing, the title highlights the contrast of it’s oxymoron.
Experiencing the infinite horizon of a landscape automatically triggers a sense of petiteness, isolation, loneliness, and therefor led to self questionning the instinct of our own survival.
The scarcity of human presence in these dry environments, a no mans land can become unsettling. Where does it end? And yet, the series always presents barriers, making the mind wonder about what lies above, beyond, or behind the massive rock or sand formations.
Does the lack of direction nurtures a feeling of mental exhaustion? And yet the contemplation was met in every frame.
It was all a dream - Vancouver - 2015
This series explores the theme of dreams, a common and shared sensory experience, yet deeply personal and treasured, set apart from our mundane lives. Walking at night in Vancouver felt somewhat like that. A dream is a collection of fragmented, uncertain memories, consciousness, hidden secrets, and countless mysteries, drawing material from the many chambers of the mind.
The night setting plays with saturated dark tones and out-of-focus long takes, adding a sense of motion to the photos. The city lights, offering some guidance, serve as a reminder that each dream is a unique experience. At the end of the four-photo series awaits a harsh reality—the shock of awakening—as it was all just a dream
Belles Bruxelles - Brussels - 2010
Belles Bruxelles is a first reaction where I moved to Brussels in Belgium. It is a simple and illustrative series, depicting a little bit of absurdity and the disorder which takes over the city.
DIPTYCHS - The Eyes Are The Mirror Of The Soul - Neuchatel /Geneve - 2008
This series took place when I was studying philosophy and anthropology in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
It was one of the first series I have made and it was made regardless of any technical consideration. The puprose finds place in a reflection mirroring my state of mind during this period.
Taking the approach of the participant-observer in ethnography, my goal was to let people drive me while taking pictures of a place that we would define together after discussing and a portrait of themselves in this precise place as if the place and the person were conversing silently.
Baptiste
Amandine
Cyril
Cecile
