"Atlantic wall" is a series of photographs started in 2020. This series offers in its first part "In the mist", already published and several times awarded, a peaceful look at the remains of a tormented period in our history.
This is another form of representation, bearing on the same theme. The remains of a tagged bunker exposed to the wear and tear of time. South coast of Landes, France. Photo taken on June 20, 2021.
I called this photo, "Slow agony of the beast" because the concrete block emerging from the earth and thus painted, gives the illusion of the head of an marine animal, howling its pain above the waves, or coming to seek a last gulp of oxygen essential to its survival.
It is clear that this photo takes a look at suffering. On the slow agony of this tormented period of our history and of the sufferings it engendered. But also on the fact that the beast is not dead. Proof of this is the emergence of diverse populisms within hard-won democracies.
