Real Indications

For over ten years I have assiduously created this gallery of portraits which feature friends as well as strangers. Little by little they provide me with the indications, gestures and expressions which inspire the scenes I am photographing. These images go to the heart of the tensions which surround the act of portraiture: conflicting temptations to show or to hide, to reveal all or become opaque, to ignore the other or to act in reaction to him. A phantasmagorical collection of real encounters transformed into a surreal tableaux.