PINBALL DESTINY
SKATE or DIE!
Lane lights spinner
Lights grill bonus
Targets Light Kickback
"Because we all want extraball. The ball is life, you have to anticipate the trajectory and make it bounce to avoid game over."
Bordeaux, France. 2022.
Rolleiflex T f3,5 75mm Tessar - Cinestill 800T
HD film scan
OSSAU TEMPO - French Pyrenees series
Array d'Aüssaü refuge
Arougos Peak
May 2021.
You don’t have to cross the globe to experience an adventure.
Sometimes you just have to leave your home.
So imagine when we drive four hours to find ourselves in the heart of the Pyrenean mountains ...
In a time of global respiratory problems, it was necessary to go and breathe the fresh mountain air.
After several lockdowns and its share of restrictions, walking through the door of your home instantly transforms us into a John Muir treading the Sierra Nevada and, like a Jack London, I was about to immortalize on film my trek, or «my walk», in the snow-capped heights of this rocky line about 70 million years old.
15kg on my back, my Rolleiflex slung over the shoulder creating an uncomfortable imbalance. A tent and the survival kit in order to be independent. Two trekking poles and 7 films should I hope to bring me satisfaction, ecstasy, serenity and happiness in pain.
Like a retired monk, I leave to fade into nature, empty my mind and get closer to the essential. The organic self being one with the elements.
Well, without wanting to spoil the story. If you hope to clear your mind when you go on a photo hike, forget it. I thought of framing a 25 km walk in two days and one night. And the next night, then the next day ...
Survive
The shadow
Puerto del Portalet
All the photos in this series were taken with a Rolleiflex T f3.5 75mm Tessar and UV, red and infrared filters.
Films (Kodak Tri-x 400, Bergger Pancro 400, Fomapan 400, Rollei Infrared 400) were developed at ilford Ilfosol 3 and scanned with an Epson V750 pro, in my shelter.
The old hut
The border
Pyrenees crossroad (sold)
Talmont - Fouras - Oléron series
Signal me from the other side
Chassiron lighthouse
All crabs are dead
Oceanic lamps
We built bridges and put up signs
Rolleiflex T f3,5 75mm Tessar - Rollei RPX 400 - Red filter
Ilford Ilfosol 3
HD film scan
In front of Fort Louvois
Around the Dune
Slingshot
Pilat Peak
Dune of Pilat, France. 2022.
Rolleiflex T f3,5 75mm Tessar - Bergger Pancro400 - Red filter
Ilford Ilfosol 3
HD film scan
Time breaks down borders
Wanderings in the Médoc
Far away
Roll in the fragrant herbs
Médoc, France. 2021.
Rolleiflex T f3,5 75mm Tessar - Kodak 400TMAX - Red filter
Ilford Ilfosol 3
HD film scan
The lock of feelings is constantly overflowing
Through the tall grass
Feet in the water
in the heart of the Prés salés
Woodheart #1
Woodheart #3
Médoc, France. 2021.
Rolleiflex T f3,5 75mm Tessar - Kodak 400TX - Red filter
Ilford Ilfosol 3
HD film scan
Woodheart #4
Woodheart #2
I don't know if Forrest Gump and Bubba experienced this fine rain in Vietnam.
This small rain, fine and light like a cloud which explodes slowly.
This fine and light rain that settles delicately on the clothes, on the hair, not daring to get wet except in contact with the hand, with the wrinkling of clothes.
Anyway, my 80s trench coat is soaked, my shoes drowned in flooded sand paths.
Walking in the wind, I protect my Rolleiflex like a pregnant woman protects her belly.
We are on a Sunday morning in February in the heart of the Prés salés between Lège and Arès, in France, trying to translate an idea of an image that I have in mind.
After looking, turning and returning, I find myself not knowing where to start, having finally found a place conducive to my creativity.
This place is out of time.
No one around and I imagine myself in the past centuries.
One, two, three, four back. A painter in search, a cursed poet adrift, a local child deceiving boredom.
The sky is overcast, the weather is gloomy.
It's a perfect mise en abyme of the feeling that I decided to exploit.
Touching my hypersensitivity, I squeeze the shutter button.
By night
Door 12
Night industry
Bordeaux, France. 2022.
Rolleiflex T f3,5 75mm Tessar - Cinestill 800T
HD film scan
HOTEL 45
Night car park
Life as a carousel
RoToR
Bordeaux, France. 2018.
Rolleiflex T f3,5 75mm Tessar - Cinestill 800T
HD film scan
BARBE A PAPA
SUPER BOXE
LA GRANDE ROUE
Do you remember our dreams?
Remember #1
Mimizan-Plage, France. 2022.
Rolleiflex T f3,5 75mm Tessar - Kodak Gold 200
HD film scan
Remember #2
Vent salé
TEZOS NFT
The escape
Rolleiflex T f3,5 75mm Tessar - Kodak Portra 800
HD film scan
Le grand saut
Whispers of the night
TEZOS NFT
502/501
Rolleiflex T f3,5 75mm Tessar - Kodak Portra 400 + 800
HD film scan
Gare de BEGLES
Secret drawer
Through the tall grass
hides the ocean
Dune of Pilat, France. 2022.
Rolleiflex T f3,5 75mm Tessar - Bergger Pancro400 - Red filter
Ilford Ilfosol 3
HD film scan
Madonna Litta
Madonna Litta
Taken in April 2019, this portrait is a photographic interpretation of the recurring theme in religious painting and sculpture: Virgin and Child, or Madonna and Child.
It features lallement.eth's three-month-old son being breastfed by his mother in a purely chiaroscuro style.
The immortality of a moment lost forever.
"Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all life forms, the world would be static, rhythmless, danceless, mummified."
Alan Watts.
Rolleiflex T f3,5 75mm Tessar - Kodak 400TX
Ilford Ilfosol 3
HD film scan
Glasses of clouds
BITCOIN NFT
Glasses of clouds
Rolleiflex T f3,5 75mm Tessar - Fuji Provia 100F
HD film scan
Luminous presence
SOLANA NFT
Steam and rain
Bordeaux, France. 2023.
Rolleiflex T f3,5 75mm Tessar - Cinestill 800T
HD film scan
TAKAJOUÉ
LA SOURIS
District 69
SOLANA NFT
District 69
Rolleiflex T f3,5 75mm Tessar
Bergger Pancro400 & Kodak Tri-X 400
Red filter - Ilford Ilfosol 3
HD film scan
The only escape
Light and curves
First irradiation
(Animated gif)