Alain Sauvan

Professional photographer for the press and for books (Zingaro published by Sansouire, Contemporary Architecture in Provence by Éditions de la Martinière ..), Alain Sauvan now takes his lens to nature. "Photography never ceases to question me about what reality is. It could be, as a fixed and unique image, the complete affirmation of this reality. But by introducing the multiple inside the" one "another reading of the subject emerges. The sequential series use three images to create a new, mental one. The "animist" series multiply the patterns marking out the border between the visible and the invisible to invoke it always with three images. In the case of diptychs, double diptychs and quadriptychs, the mechanism of the sequential series is reversed and a single image gives us several, physically visible this time. Just like that of the "animist" series, the latent motif now being evoked. Photography being for me an exploration of limits, this territory where invocation and evocation graze is an extraordinary terrain of I (u). May these few lines enlighten you on my questions on the notion of r equality of the photographic image ". Alain Sauvan 2013