Find happiness or a meaning in life.
These are both very personal questions and endless quests.
Either, we prefer to avoid the question to protect ourselves or because of lack of time. But I feel like we’re missing out on our own lives.
Either, we face reality, but there is a high risk of entering into depression before finding an answer.
Nowadays, this trend could get worse given the wars, the covid, climate change, etc...
Of course, I do not claim to have found a magic solution nor a universal solution.
I just think we have so much to learn from the children.
They are too often considered as capricious little human beings, unable to win a wedge at Trivial Pursuit.
Yet, they know a lot more than we want to see.
Starting with curiosity, empathy, honesty, the love of one’s neighbor (whatever the color) but also an undeniable mental strength.
As we grow up, we are naturally faced with disappointments and even the loss of loved ones.
Children always rise up where we can crumble.
They move on, leave their disappointments or sadness behind without ever forgetting them.
They are the light I chose in order not to sink.
With this photographic project, I tried to capture spontaneity rather than ask to pose and get a forced smile and a raised thumb.
I wish to offer tenderness in this hard world, to make people laugh but also to think.
And in the longer term, I wish we could reach again innocence, just like the child keeps being fascinated every day and whose priority is having fun.
