Varia

Varia brings together photographs taken outside of my artistic projects and commissions. It is a selection drawn from a large body of film and digital images made since the early 2000s. This selection is not fixed: many images remain to be discovered in contact sheets and hard drives.
It is also a constantly evolving body of work. I photograph frequently, “for pleasure,” as a way of staying in practice, keeping my reflexes sharp, and training my eye.

These photographs are taken during walks, on vacation, or simply without any particular occasion, on what we call ordinary days—though they are not so ordinary if we consider that they are unique and will never return. Photography becomes a way of holding on to something of them: a light, a sensation…
These moments are also an opportunity to play, to preserve the memory of a face through a portrait, or to capture fleeting light on a body or a beloved landscape.

Varia is not organized chronologically. Instead, the relationships between images create a form of montage. The photographs present things and people quite directly; they are dated, captioned, and documentary in nature. Yet their sequence also produces a fiction: a story unfolds.
In this online gallery—a public space open to all—I have chosen to set aside the most intimate images. I reserve them for a book, a more tactile and private space, better suited to this kind of intimacy.

This gallery presents a selection from the series