Wandering is a way to get lost in territories at the time when everything is geo-localized through our smartphone. The choice of the use of XX th century analog cameras and black and white films is a way to escape from the digital photography only able to produce images and not photographies.
By using these old cameras, these photos are not localized through a GPS (the one on of your smartphone) and it is a way to deal with the epiphanic patterns around you when you're getting lost in some territories around the world. As an urban person, these photos are mainly urban landscape. Luccy R Lippard has wrote about the Tourism aesthetic at the age of our world globalization ( "On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art, and Place" Luccy R Lippard 1999).
This series is questioning both the aesthetic of this nomadism and what kind of epiphanic landscape it would define. Each picture is a place of a potential fiction...
All the photos are produced with:
Cameras:
- A Zeiss Ikon Icarex 35 camera and a Zeiss Tessar 50 mm / 2.8 lens
- A Rolleï 35 camera with a Zeiss Tessar 40 mm / 3.5 lens
- A Rolleï XF35 camera with a Zeiss Sonar 40 mm / 2.8 lens
Films:
- Kodak Tmax 400
- Kodak Tmax 100
Valéry Grancher from 2016 until now