Honorable Mention
Solitudes
DESCRIPTION
A deserted landscape and three isolated figures are the subject of this photograph. These are the two dikes and semaphores, at the Adour mouth, a river in southwestern France. The second semaphore in the distance is almost imperceptible, drowned in the diaphanous morning glow of a misty and dark seaside dawn. The fishermen blend, as usual, into this desolate landscape of cold colors.There emerges from this seemingly "empty" scene a sense of loneliness and isolation, like a feeling that time has stood still in a climate of doom. It is precisely the weight of this fatality that the protagonists of this scene transmit to us. The pose lasted 8.7 seconds, and they didn't move! ...
Motionless and silent, stuck and helpless against their own loneliness; fighting for an improbable fish, or to destroy what separates them from the real world, off-screen. They perfectly illustrate this feeling of expectation, of hope that the world will become itself again.
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This photograph is probably a reflection of our own loneliness but may also reflect the entire human condition
AUTHOR
Native from a small village in the Landes (France), between the Adour river and the ocean, I very early on fell in love with the great outdoors, seashores and rivers, calm and solitary landscapes.My first camera was the one that my grandfather left me. I was then in university and taking my first steps in film photography with the modest means of the time. I wanted my photos to tell a story, to convey emotions ...
Then the years went by, mainly devoted to work, and it is in the deep Amazon that I lose my last film camera and my last rolls of films. I didn’t practice photography for many years, however thinking of returning to it one day ...
Very attracted to portraiture and the artistic world, it was not until 2017 that I put my foot into the stirrup ... digital this time. I carry out series of portraits of musicians, dancers, actors, screenwriters… whom I meet during artistic events. I then try to develop images that are faithful to the perception I have of what they give me to see and transmit to me. Photography turns into an unsuspected architect of social ties that gradually tear me away from daily labor, opening wide the doors to artistic creation.
In 2019, I discovered the long exposure technique, and I venture on this ground, where time and light offer new spaces of freedom and inspiration. The large spaces that I love find their place here, in another dimension and under another light. The photographic creation generates new emotions, a feeling of plenitude, where the softness and minimalism of the images, reveal the true reflection of the feelings, opening on a peaceful world with which I feel in harmony ...
