Painting-like

The natural Park of Camargue, in the south of France, captured my heart, my soul and my mind one year ago. Flying above its salt marshes is very inspiring. It takes you elsewhere. The Nature there is pretty spectacular, one of the best Designer, which never fails to impress. When the water becomes very salty during the summer time, the shrimps disappear, causing the algae to proliferate. The colours reach their maximum of intensity and can vary from lighter shades of green, yellow to vibrant red. The colour becomes a language that inspires, touches viewers and hopefully, makes them reflect on what they see, while exploring the photos on a deeper level, with new perspective. We discover something familiar or unknown from a new vantage point. The strong contrasts and geometric shapes of the salt marshes remind me of abstract paintings. After having spent 1 hour above the natural beauty of the local scenery, on board an ULM, I decided to create a landscape series making reference to famous paintings, while expressing the same powerful emotions as paintings of Sanyu, Zao Wou-Ki, Rothko or Miró can provoke. My series was taken with my head and my camera pointing directly downwards. The resulting photographs combine vivid and natural colours with geometric shapes to create a series of abstract stills that fall somewhere between Art and Photography, through "Painting-like", an inner journey of self-exploration. (On the left, you will see my photos and on the right the reference to the painting.)