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…PRENDRE UNE PHOTO…

…TO TAKE A PHOTOGRAPH…

…TOMAR UNA FOTO…


The same expression
in French, English, and Spanish,
using this verb “prendre,” “to take,” “tomar”

But WHAT am I taking, and from WHOM?

Don’t you also say to “take a snap-shot”? Two verbs turned into a substantive, thus stopping the action inherent to the verb, and fixing it into an immobile composite noun…
The verb-noun “snap” projects the feeling of stealing, robbing, of taking something away hurriedly, and the verb-noun “shot,” a violent deathly throw, almost like a homicidal gaze… But again, what do I steal? What do I make mine?
What, whom do I kill?


Is photography a hunt
for territorial re-appropriation?
A physical, topographical, cerebral, and spiritual re-appropriation? Am I a thief?
A photo shoot! Do I assassinate what I shoot or do I preserve it from decay and death? Do I kill the instant, or do I resurrect it?

When I take a photograph, I enter the mysterious process of time, I experience duration, that is “felt time…” A phenomenology of constant discovery, which plays with and harmonizes paradoxes, a simultaneous “pas de deux”: instantaneity-pose, fugitive-static, randomness-control, impermanence- permanence…
I extract from the precariousness of life, I resurrect from the flux of temporal and spatial impressions, from the flow of duration, a little morsel of eternity… I fix an instant into my personal memory, which once shared, becomes collective …
WHEN I TAKE A PHOTOGRAPH I STOP TIME…
for a while…
I GIVE TIME BACK TO TIME…
I GIVE LIFE TO A LATENT IMAGE, I RE-BIRTH IT…
I GIVE LIFE TO A MOMENT WHICH OTHERWISE
WOULD HAVE BEEN FORGOTTEN…

But don’t we all need to forget in order to remember?

FOREMOST
Photography is an on-going love story
A love story with life, nature, people…
An insatiable curiosity
energizes my gaze.

And this is it!
THE GAZE!
I do not need any expensive sophisticated cameras
I need EYES!

The camera
is just an extension of my gaze


I am sharing with you different kinds of images, all stemming from a primordial retinal immediacy and an orgasmic sense of estheticism. Whether figurative, non-figurative, descriptive, narrative, nonsensical, focusing on composition or pure street photography (seizing the moment,) whether projecting emotions, pleasures or pains, whether black and white or in color, my photos resonate with authenticity and humility.
I am never trying to impress, to create in order to sell. I am just looking, seeing, and most importantly SHARING.
As you look at and see my photos, ask yourself WHAT IS IT? Or HOW-WHAT DO I FEEL?

The image is yours!