Open Theme nominee

Out of Nothing, a series of photographs taken from 2008 to today, is the fruit of my wanderings across the territory of Greater Montreal.
These shots, made without any staging, special effects or gimmicks, 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, according to a process borrowed from Psychogeography, 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 colors interrogates and challenges the viewer.

I am an architect and urban planner. I started getting interested in photography at the age of seventeen. My first pictures were in black and white. A few years later, I moved on to color photography after discovering the work of William Eggleston. I live in Montreal, Canada and I am inspired by the architectural and urban environments that surround me.