photographer

In this work, I investigate the notion of territory. The acceleration of the technological manners send back to us ceaselessly to the fact that some people call the " global village " by letting understand that the speed would reduce the distances and that our planet would about have unified on a vast more or less homogeneous territory.
We have the impression that it conceals no more "terra incognita", that it is known well, limited, mapped, inventoried by fund,from top to bottom ! We see so images that we have the impression of to know it well.
The knowledge often asks the time of the reflection and of the experiment which the only vision of the images is not enough to elaborate. The streams of images which replace too often the contacts and the direct experiment sometimes blur our perceptions of the territory by splitting it and by setting its parts of manners so arbitrary as unstable.

But the time of the pondering - and that of the reflection - agree more in the slowness than in the frenzy which seizes more and more the urban whom are the majority of the people living on the planet today. In 2008, the humanity crossed the course of the 50 % of people living in urban zone, and the phenomenon is only accelerating, we announce us 80 % before the end of the century. The face of the world thus is changing radically and very quickly.
But if for our great-grandparents to leave its countryside for the city meant mostly a shape of " social ascent " and a more comfortable life, a number of human beings who migrate today make it to join the shanty towns of the megalopolises which develop in all the countries of the world - when it is not to risk to lose its life in the borders of Europe !

On a big part of the planet the development of the industries and of food-processing industries dispossessed the farmers of their traditional roles and decreased their number on exploitations always vaster and more hyper mechanized. The face of countrysides, and by consequences of cities is there profoundly modified - by the appearance of what we call " dormitory towns " and "suburbs", and that of gigantic shanty towns today. The rural populations also diversified in their lifestyles connected to the development of the telecommuting or to the price increase of the urban zones which pushes the most modest farther and farther of the heart of the big cities where the property speculation is for the work.

The configuration and the management of every territory interact on the whole country. Number of decisions taken in a given zone have repercussions in the other end of the planet.

It is for that reason that I " rose " to observe the organization of territories on the surface of the earth, because the aerial view allows another apprehension of the space and what constitutes it in spaces of various natures. The continuity marks there more easily, the organization of the human activities is there more legible. The aesthetic dimension of this perpendicular vision interests me very also, as that of the plans, the aerial views and the maps, all which allows to elaborate the construction of the space in a graphic way.
In this series, I choose certain precise places as their symbolic dimension, their importance in the international relations - as it is economic, ecological, social or political.
The composition of photos which frames the aerial view, proposes a plastic approach of a polysemous set in which each can circulate according to his sensibility, and invent a course more or less close to the given problem. Associated with a quotation which we discover lastly, every polyptych forms a whole to be freely investigated in a global or local, aesthetic or / and speculative vision...

It seems particularly important today to think of the usage of the global territory at the world level, and to take into account more the interest of the generations to be born whose future we mortgage by skinning the earth of its wealth faster than it renew them, and by soiling it of more waste than she can eliminate.

The acceleration of the globalization can only encourage us to keep eyes opened on the world and to question us about the way we fit out the territory and on the interactions which occur between these spaces - as well in the plan local as national or international - because of our political, economic and human choices.

I chose to reconstruct fragments of precise territories from questionings to which the human existence does not stop sending back(dismissing), in this entitled series " The beating of wings of the butterflies ".