-Where does your passion for photography come from?
The boredom…One day I locked three color spots in a slide that my mother, who was a researcher, used to observe her cells and I projected it on a rose to make one of my first photographs.
-what influenced and shaped your taste?
Botticelli and the Italian renaissance, ancient Greece and more generally all the periods in the history of art which were interested in a freer representation of women.
The current of surrealist photography of the 1930s, the nudes of Edward Weston or Man Ray also greatly nourished my work
-your mood, your creative desires of the moment?
See my photos come to life… or printed in very large format as will be the case in May in Toulouse where certain visuals from the Color Studies series will be exhibited in 2×3 m during the Traverse Video festival.
-What are the inspirations related to this project?
As a teenager, I remember dreaming of doing this job as a man because I didn’t like the way women were represented in magazines.
It hasn’t always been conscious, but working for fashion has always been a way for me to talk about women… and to be able to express myself as a woman. When I was invited to Beaubourg to talk about this subject on the occasion of the Dora Maar exhibition, I realized how difficult it still is today to tackle this theme and the importance it had always had in my work.
-What importance do you give to color and movement in your work?
Color is central to my work. Very often it is around her that the image is built.
More than movement, it is perhaps a feeling of freedom that I am looking for… the quest for a moment, the search for a certain spontaneity.
In short sequences that sometimes almost look like performances, my women play with fashion, hijack it, appropriate it…sometimes free themselves from it!
-Where does your passion for photography come from?
The boredom…One day I locked three color spots in a slide that my mother, who was a researcher, used to observe her cells and I projected it on a rose to make one of my first photographs.
-what influenced and shaped your taste?
Botticelli and the Italian renaissance, ancient Greece and more generally all the periods in the history of art which were interested in a freer representation of women.
The current of surrealist photography of the 1930s, the nudes of Edward Weston or Man Ray also greatly nourished my work
-your mood, your creative desires of the moment?
See my photos come to life… or printed in very large format as will be the case in May in Toulouse where certain visuals from the Color Studies series will be exhibited in 2×3 m during the Traverse Video festival.
-What are the inspirations related to this project?
As a teenager, I remember dreaming of doing this job as a man because I didn’t like the way women were represented in magazines.
It hasn’t always been conscious, but working for fashion has always been a way for me to talk about women… and to be able to express myself as a woman. When I was invited to Beaubourg to talk about this subject on the occasion of the Dora Maar exhibition, I realized how difficult it still is today to tackle this theme and the importance it had always had in my work.
-What importance do you give to color and movement in your work?
Color is central to my work. Very often it is around her that the image is built.
More than movement, it is perhaps a feeling of freedom that I am looking for… the quest for a moment, the search for a certain spontaneity.
In short sequences that sometimes almost look like performances, my women play with fashion, hijack it, appropriate it…sometimes free themselves from it!
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