Residents

Residents is a series of portraits of inhabitants of a small town in the Pyrenees, in the south of France.
For this series, I made the models interact in a space determined beforehand with them, each space being related to their history and their personal relationship to the territory (place of life, work, meeting, memory etc…). We didn’t know each other before. It was them who, after our meeting, took me to their place, and photo space.
In their pose There was not, any staging in the first sense of the term because they evolve in a space that they knew. Even if I could guide them, I wanted to leave them free, in their “scene”. Each pose is in fact the result of a gesture, of a movement, frozen in time by the camera.
All the shooting were taken at night. The night as a time of intimacy, a time of solitary dream.
By photographing them in the dark, I wished to transcribe a facet of their personality, a side of their life, because it is linked to an intimate relationship with the territory. I want to give an account of a certain secret aspect of their character, freezing their bodies in interaction with a space that speaks of them.