Walkabout

This dreamlike series is about an initiatory journey, the mysteries of wild nature and the strangeness we can all feel when confronted with wide open spaces, both sublime and hostile. Roaming the earth (especially when you take a break in your city life) allows to bring out buried emotions and to rekindle a strong link between nature and yourself. This bond is almost forgotten but still alive, as if coming from the dawn of time… Those photographs were mainly taken in Australia and New Zealand. In the Aboriginal culture, a walkabout is a rite of passage to adulthood: young men have to survive alone in the bush for several days or weeks. "Nature is a temple where living pillars Let sometimes emerge confused words ; Man crosses it through forests of symbols Which watch him with intimate eyes." (Charles Baudelaire – « Correspondences », in Flowers of Evil)