Digital Primitive

Digital Primitive Digital Primitive is a project that documents the practices of some enthusiasts, researchers, archaeologists, who practice crafts or use primitive craft techniques to give life to what is usually found behind the display cases of a museum. In the contemporary world, this hobby takes on the appearance of a protest against a life that is going too fast. From this comes its name of Digital Primitive.

In collaboration with : Fédérico Barbon (Graphic Design)

Subjective Archive

Through its cultural and artistic influence, the city of Venice has marked many centuries of history. However, the massive influx of tourists and climate change weaken its cultural heritage. The city tends to become a mere scenery of its own representation. By filming Venice in fixed shots, I build a database. Distancing myself from the frozen iconography of the city, I extract images of its life as it unfolds. The resulting «Subjective Archive» is the experience of a singular stroll via a web platform: a voluntarily partial and subjective archive of the actors of everyday life in Venice.

Seiyō no me

More than a confrontation, «Seiyō no me» presents a dialogue between the representation of a culture and its actual discovery. Japan has a strong identity, the image I have of this distant country has been built for many years. Over the course of the readings but above all of the films and directors who were kind enough to reveal behaviours, places and customs, I built an imagination. Once passed through many airport gates and boarding areas. I was there, with my Western eyes, and my shaped eye was looking to recognize what I had seen so much.

Artificialisation du Terroir

For over 7000 years, man, then the winemaker and now the biologist, have been cultivating the vine and developing the territory. The vine, anarchic in its wild state, is controlled in space and in its biological cycle. With «Artificialisation du Terroir» , I confront two notions: the terroir, a set of lands in a region considered the refuge of habits, traditions, tastes typically regional, with the process of artificialization through which man modifies the environment. Nowadays , genetic research enables us to create more resistant, hybrid vines with many oenological properties. In parallel, the increasingly frequent use of drone dusters and have a direct impact on the daily activities of winegrowers, whose craft is undoubtedly one of the most traditional. Inspired by technological evolution, this series of images reveals the secret and futur challenges of winegrowing .

Project exhibited during Images Vevey 2018 (CH).

Curated by Milo Keller, Head of Photography Department at ECAL

Produced by Images Vevey, ECAL/Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne and the Confrérie des Vignerons for the Fête des Vignerons 2019. In association with the Société vaudoise d’histoire et d’archéologie.

Scenography by : Amandine Gini (ECAL)

Zones Commerciales et Pavillonnaires

20 minutes from my native village is the largest shopping area in Europe in terms of population; the Avignon Nord shopping area. Its unbridled development is transforming our habits, our way of operating and changing the landscape. The car is in the centre, between work, shopping area and residential pavilions; the village is transformed into a dormitory suburb. As a photographer, I witness this impetus towards modernity and this policy that I have been involved in for many years.

Hydro

Photography documentary about hydroelectric facilities in Switzerland. Dams are unusual constructions, with a sacred dimension. Being at the foot of a dam is like being at the bottom of the pyramids, immensity is contemplating us. Man shapes the landscape and the slow movement of the mountains to discipline the impetuousness of the water. Inside these singular buildings, looking like palaces, screens display water flows, figures scroll as in the stock exchange. And we watch them with the attention of the faithful in a temple of Modernity. The installations are the result of a human adventure that is part of Swiss history and the realization of many technical advances. Yet like every deity, these constructions constraining nature can be devastating.