Shadow by Fred Nogier

The "Shadow" project was born one summer's day by pure coincidence, when I observed the projection of my shadow on a bed of sunlight. I began to play with this silhouette, whose presence has accompanied my images ever since. I stage my shadow in "Happenings" during long walks through the city, which I like to transform into a theatre. I play several roles simultaneously: director, actor and photographer. The director senses the idea, discovers and implements the story. The actor acts, mimes and improvises the scenes. The photographer captures the scene in a single click at a precise moment, the one that will be shown to the spectator. It's an interesting form of gymnastics that I like to impose on myself. It's a game that unfolds at random in the streets, with objects that become accessories, the sun and its ever-changing light, colours and shapes, and the passage of time that has an impact on the atmosphere of the moment. There are no limits to creation in this project. Sometimes surreal, sometimes absurd, sometimes pointed, these little scenes transform the banality of everyday life by magnifying it and making it visible from a different angle. In this approach, I create without artifice, with what surrounds us, surprising or upsetting the order of things and questioning what seemed established at the time. In my images there is also the idea of the person outside the frame, projecting upwards from below, which could also be the viewer.