People 2nd place winner

Shooting in the photographic chamber – Pigmentaire print 100x75cm

This image is the story of an improbable meeting, the idea of a photography that I expose to them without really believing, of my surprise at what they accept and take the time to pose in front of my dark chamber.

How do you manage to exist in this changing world, not to change and give up your identity? To this question, which is certainly naive on my part, she simply answers me: Because we are Himbas!

« I take pictures, I make pictures …
In a world that surrenders to the demon of speed, which overwhelms us with images, movement, sounds, our last luxury is time, the one we take to stop and look at what surrounds us. If a photo is silent while you decide what it says, I believe a photographer is involved in his time, by reproducing what he sees, through his own idea of aesthetics, his intimate perception, but that he does not affirm or impose.»