Hungry of Flowers:  a Dark Comedy

(new project, 2025​)

Suddenly, dancing like elves, animals burst into my dream world of graceful and exciting frozen flowers, figures of wild and free beasts, to remind us that Nature is not only poetry and poetic resilience, but also hunger, destruction, irrationality. The photographic freeze is broken by the generation of uncontrollable and subversive creatures. Nature itself is upset with or without our help.

 "Mass & Energy , "Marine Suggestions"  

(new projects, 2024)

​In these projects, I moved toward a more abstract vision, to explore with  more freedom the ever changing interactions between  solids,  light waves and liquid waves. As already in my previous work "Iced Ikebanas", I feel music and images going  together.

 

Ice &  Ikebanas ( We  Defrost )​

                    (Finalist,  International Photo Awards 2022, and Tokio International Foto Awards 2022)

An open project on frozen and thawed wildflowers, a poetic research that wants to be a cry of pain for the collapse of the glaciers caused by the global warming of Planet Earth.

                            

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Terroirs

            (Juror's pick selection LensCulture B&W Awards 2021; Monochrome Award 2022; Grand Prix Paris, 2022)

The project, started as a story of harvesters in South African Western Province, directed soon  to transmit  to represent their resilience and humanity. In photographing, I am very interested in the theatricality of human actions: in this project, the harvesters' performances have the fields and mountains of the Winelands of South Africa as their fifth and backdrop.

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The  Last Ritual

(Commended in Tokyo International Foto Awards 2022)

The Italian director P.P. Pasolini considered football "The last sacred ritual of our time". This ritual also inspired Paolo Sorrentino's recent film, "The Hand of God". The hand of God is otherwise invisible, just as the object of desire - - the sacred ball - - is not seen in my images.

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            W.W.W. ...... Who Watches Whom

              (Winner, IPA Photobooks 2021, Category People )

 Many photos from different music or sport events are assembled together for a physical "fusion : I want to emphasize the importance of real encounters, as opposed to "social networks", result-cause of social distance.

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Vertigo​

I feel a particular intoxication in even moderate altitudes, because in my childhood I loved climbing, and once I fell from a branch. It took me several years to climb back up without feeling a helpless vertigo, which has now turned into a subtle pleasure, like tasting a forbidden fruit.                                                              

Minority Report

Almost forgotten, in the cauldron of tourist consumerism and the zoo effect which is an effect of globalization, the Himba are back in the limelight since in  2020 the project of the dam on the Kunene River -- dating back to 2008 and put on hiatus in 2015 - - was resumed: the dam would flood the areas where their flocks have been grazing for hundreds of years. The interests of a small minority - - between southern Angola and northern Namibia, very grossly estimated between 12,000 and 25,000 - - will certainly not arrest those of powerful economic organizations.

It is therefore very likely that photographing them is like photographing an endangered species.