My name is Valentin Astier, I am a 33 years old photographer.
My photography is linked to travel, whatever its form. Travelling awakens my curiosity. My photos are instinctive, I do not anticipate and let myself be impregnated by the atmosphere that each place gives off. It is then by the color grading and the editing that I reveal the atmosphere that I felt there. I am sensitive to the contemplative poetry that my stories exude.
I am fascinated by the influence of time, of absence, which echo the concept of liminal space. It can be seen as a threshold of perception, a border between two states, what was and what will be. They are spaces of transition and expectation, physical or psychological.
These objects and places, which seem already frozen by their nature, offer themselves a resonance box thanks to photography. The imprint that human, time, or both have left on them charges them with history and mystery about their future.
Around these themes of time and absence, I am also interested in the notion of imprint, texture and substance. At what point does photography describe reality, or transpose it to lead us to an interpretation? I like this paradox and I explore this blu
