Creating and questioning images

My vision of the image is built around the resemblance-difference couple. One cannot exist without the other. If one of the two is absent, then we are in identity. In fact, an image is never identical to what it represents. Otherwise, it is the object, the scene represented.

An image is a point of view defined by a position of the body in space, whether painter or photographer. This position will result in a low-angle image, a bird’s-eye view, 3/4 face or profile..., it’s also a focal length, a depth of field and a subject-camera distance. These last three will determine the image’s zone of sharpness.

The image is also characterized by a technique : wash, oil paint, watercolor, black & white photography, color, etc.

Thanks to images, man has set out to conquer the invisible with X-rays, infra-red... or even images from the Hubble telescope.

I chose to use photographic techniques. That’s why I’m a “reportage” photographer, with over 30 years’ experience of photographing the Jardin des Tuileries - the quotation marks are there because color grading plays an important role in these images.

In my opinion, the photo is never the real thing, so I also make photomontages, as shown in these images.

De l’image 3D

or this 3D printing staging, illustrated an article post in this blog and entitled Should the statue of Medea be debunked ?

or the film. Some of them have been presented at the Cannes Film Festival, such as Empreintes, a film made with Marco Martella, presented at the Cannes Film Festival and acquired by the Forum des Images, based on more than 30 years of photography in the Jardin des Tuileries.
or prizewinners at the Deauville Environmental Film Festival as the movie Eaux Vives - Eaux Fortes.