The pictures presented at the 1920 come from a collection of pictures I took when i started to fall in love with Cambodia seven to ten years ago. 

They were taken with my old camera and the same black and white films because i like the athmosphere they bring to the pictures - the poetic reaction of silver and the light on the photographic paper. 

 

A fortunate accident happend to the picture taken at the West Baray: rain and candy accentuated the vintage effect  which came as a beautiful surprise.

Magic arrived to me at the end when I opened and saw the photos on paper. They reflected exactly what I had felt like expressing on this work. 

I owned pictures that look as old as those taken at the beginning of photography, and it felt like they were out of time. 

I was born in 1976 in the Paris suburbs. It was in my childhood where images from Paris in black and white taken by Doisneau, Boubat, Willy Ronis, Cartier Bresson were all around and available in exhibitions in Paris. I used to go the there with my mom. The visits to the exhibitions felt like little adventures outside of my small world in the suburbs. That is probably when i felt for both Paris and photography. 

 

 

Later on in life, I choose history and ethnology as my university degree and I also studied sign language. I was kind of obsessed with travelling and discovering other cultures and different ways of life. 

But I still felt like i was missing a part of me. It was during my travels that I really begann to take pictures and draw at the same time. It became my own diary because words were not enough to express myself.

I also have the obsession of fixing a "souvenir" on a frame because I fear to forget that instant of life. I feared i didn't have enough space in my own library of moments.  

Later on I joined a photo school to learn more about photojournalism. At the end of that year is when I left for Asia.

Now I have opened a small shop "La boutique free your art" with a fellow artist: my childhood best friend and painter Nancy Wajsbrot, to expose our  art. It is my way to express my two passions. I like to sell illustration, children clothes, accessories and some of my photos taken in Asia.

 

LA BOUTIQUE
King’s Road Market (behind Hard Rock Cafe)