Out of nothing, a series of photographs taken between 2008 and 2015, is the fruit of my wanderings across the territory of Greater Montreal.
These shots, made without any staging, special effects or gimmicks, with a 35mm film camera, aim to transcribe the visual and graphic dimensions of my everyday life in the city.
There is no ambition in these photographs to represent so-called noble subjects according to the classic aesthetic canons of art photography, but the will to assemble and to constitute into coherent landscapes, disparate objects and items which are seemingly insignificant signs of the city.
Also, these elements, sometimes degraded, a priori boring and ugly, gathered in one image, ultimately aim at showing tableaux where the juxtaposition of shapes, shadows and vibrating colors interrogates and challenges the viewer.
That said, it could be argued that these photographs are not anchored in a specific geographic location but rather are the result of a combination of shapes and colors that could be discovered and found a bit everywhere, regardless of the photographed location, city, country or continent.
However, except the somewhat provocative title of the series, this is not the case. For if the intention to give a militant
