Anti archive

By coming to reopen the memory drawers of these places through the photographic medium, I capture this tenuous moment in which the past still subsists, just before any structural evidence is forever gone. 

These places suffer the double irony of physical and moral abandonment. It is therefore a tribute to those who have passed, to the wandering souls that I meet there. 

To sublimate abandonment by making it poetic is to do justice to the human being, to give it back its place and its identity. 

Restoring identity comes down to appeasing and converting shadow into light. This is the challenge of photographing absence while transmitting the power of the living. 

To put humanism back in a lifeless place. 

The power of photography allows precisely the “visitable” materialization of our own vanity, of our human imprint.