Olir

“More intuitive than elaborate, his photographic gaze, sharpened since his first reflex camera 30 years ago, is above all guided by the emotion of a moment. Having traveled often, this allowed him to multiply these moments and thus feed a particularly eclectic photo library which he uses mainly to create the background of his photomontages. And whether they are distant or made up of simple neighborhood wanderings, these journeys are an inexhaustible source from which sometimes spring unexpectedly, poetry, magic and an alternative vision of reality.

Having worked for many years in an association dedicated to blindness, he quickly became aware of the impact of images on understanding the world and on the difficulty of integrating into today's society with a visual impairment. In a world where written information and knowledge are just a click away, it is now easy to browse it while staying at home... Among the innumerable sources to which we drink daily there remains a doubt about the objective reality of the words used by their author, our understanding being linked to our own history. If words sometimes tend to firmly channel our thoughts, a single image can sometimes liberate them, like a universal language that addresses everyone's sensitivity rather than their intellect. “To suggest is to create. To describe is to destroy," said Robert Doisneau. As a result, his photographic approach tries to follow this path, thus preferring suggestion rather than description.

For 3 years he has worked almost exclusively to write stories using photomontages, for himself or for others, as an illustrator. His creations are, for many, inspired by cinema, literature, painting or even music. It's a way of paying homage to works and/or artists who have touched him. »