Vehicule
I started from the idea of my first picture: a man walking on the road, in black and white.
During my travels, I often found myself in "inter-worlds", stations, airports, and places of transit or in vehicles that carry us. In those trips, those transits, I set in motion my life and memory. I photographed. The furthest I was, the closest I was from my memories.
Pictures were made on the fly: walking in shadows and lights on a bridges, along the route, looking the cracked asphalt of the road as a map, all the signs demarcating urban space and opening up to my eyes, as passengers entering my photographic space. A mental space. Those movements show the man in the world, in the action of the trip, and also a new way for him to watch the passing of time.
What does mean this constant present urge to move, communicate, share?
Globalization, increasing of exchanges, both men and goods move more and more ...
While mastering increasingly the way he moves, man develops and implements new ways to go always faster, always farther.
Some manner to go away from his own universe, to only create it elsewhere in a more incisive way. Does being a traveler has become a job?
Sedentary lifestyle almost becomes impossible. Migration becomes a means of expression. Man travels from one world to another, loosing himself to perhaps meeting up better with himself.
At the present global warming time, the vehicle question is formulated, but man has always traveled, (means of transport should change, not the motility of men). However, earth suffers from carbon emission and we are going to irreversible changes. Those pictures give a poetic view of change, movement, and moving.
In the Buddhist religion, body is the vehicle of our soul. One can also travel without moving, traveling in his head ...
The increase of those movements transcribes a personal quest for identity and spirituality.
Do we have to go toward others for a better understanding? It is a journey to the other, the conquest of a new unexplored world. To see with our own eyes what is "elsewhere".