Lausanne

Whispering hooves

 

I was happy and proud to display a small selection of my photographs to accompagny the beautiful artwork of my friend Caroline: Whispering hooves. Inspired by native american culture, Whispering hooves, is a collection of handbags and purses hand delicately crafted in deer hide, embroidered with pearls, silver and turquoise. 

Gallery Ephemere, Verrières-le-Buisson, December 10th-11th

 

 

Ce que je vis

You may remember the sparkling street mirrors of our friend Gilles Pandel here and there. Gilles is not only a street artist, but also a photographer. Dedicated to portraits of artists and creators, his work explores the polyphonies and textures of face and emotions.

Until October 22nd, Toulouse hosts a retrospective exhibition spread among the city, at Jean Jaurès-le Mirail university, Concha de Nazelle art gallery, Etudes bookstore and Goethe-Institut.

With portraits of Giorgio Agamben, Miquel Barceló, Sharunas Bartas, Christian Caujolle, Alain Cavalier, Hélène Cixous, Antoine d’Agata, Claire Denis, Lav Diaz, Georges Didi-Huberman, Jacques Doillon, Bruno Ganz, Armand Gatti, Jean-Luc Godard, Pierre Guyotat, Peter Greenaway, Werner Herzog, Alexandre Hollan, Anish Kapoor, Abbas Kiarostami, William Kentridge, Kim Ki-duk, Anselm Kiefer, Alexander Kluge, Xavier Lambours, Marceline Loridan-Ivans, Daidō Moriyama, Jean Nouvel, Ernest Pignon-Ernest, Jacques Rancière, Claude Régy, Michel Serres, Oksana Shachko, Jean-Marie Straub et Danièle Huillet, Ai Weiwei, Bob Wilson, Kiju Yoshida,... Elsa, and many more...

Along with the exhibition, the retrospective includes a series of conferences, worshops and performances. Elsa and I are happy and proud to contribute to the catalogue and conference program here.

More information can be found on Gilles' website.

10 years

Thanks to Catherine Drea at Foxglove lane, I just realized that it’s time to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of bateaux de papier!

10 years started with no idea of what bateaux de papier could be, 10 years blessed by many meetings, precious friendships, and thrilling collaborations. Thanks to all of you !

There may not be many people around here any more, but I am still enjoying blog format, more than image fluxes of Instragram (though I could have a go some day).

And yet. Elsa is now so grown up that bateaux de papier is on the way to turn into a season flowers’ diary. I sometimes feel I need a change, and am slowly maturating more focused photograpic projects … they will, or won’t, happen.

For the time being, here is seasons, a small book, selection of images gathered all over the years, along with a few season’s haikus (sorry, french version only; I should take time to find english versions - or translate).

 

premier rêve de l'année -

au fond de la forêt

le cerisier d'antan

 

Ozawa Minoru

 

 

 averse de pétales -

je voudrais boire

l'eau des brumes lointaines !

Kobayashi Issa

 

 nulle trace

de celui qui a pénétré

dans le bois d'été

Masao Shiki

je m'assoupis

un nuage de canicule

sur les genoux

 

Kobayashi Issa

 

 

 

 la blanche rosée

n'a qu'une couleur

comment

teint-elle de mille nuances

les feuilles d'automne ?

Fujiwara no Toshiyuki

 

on brûle les chrystanthèmes fanés

dans les flammes

la couleur des fleurs

 

Fukami Kenji

Untitled

 

Princesse au Petit Pois. Hurlevent

Elsa and I were honored, and so happy, to be chosen by Alexandra for the photography of her new Fall Winter collection (here). Thank you dear Alex for you confidence and your precious friendship. Your beautiful creations are always a source of inspiration, clothes which tell stories indeed!

The waters of Hrvatska. Seen by Elsa

Photographs and composition by Elsa