People 3rd place winner

Wet collodion is composed, among other things, of two main elements, Cooper collodion and silver nitrate. Separately, they are both used in medicine, for wound healing. Together, these two elements form a sensitive photographic emulsion similar to a thin skin spread on a glass plate.

This film dries little by little from the preparation for the shooting, until the end of the development of the photograph. It eventually hardens, shrinks, sometimes cracks and often changes color. The parallel between this texture and that of the healed skin of severe burn victims being obvious, I decided to use wet collodion to treat this subject.



"To be a major burn victim is to learn to live with a scarred, repaired, dented body, a body that every day will remind us of the day when everything changed."
-Clelia Lebreton

The human being is embarrassed in the face of difference. Sharing, showing, is breaking silences that make you uncomfortable. Because what hurts is the gaze of others, ignorance. These photographs are a message of tolerance and hope for all people who are forced to live with their marks.

Born in Pertuis in 1996, Clément began photography at an early age. At 19, he joined the ETPA photography school in Toulouse where he discovered film photography that he never left. After a sabbatical year during which he sharpened his photographic writing, he will graduate in 2020 with a mention from the jury for his "Phoenix" series on severe burns photographed at the Collodion Humide. He then moved to the Paris region and began his activity as an artist photographer.

Since graduating, her work has been featured in articles on the web and in photography magazines. Clément was one of the winners of the Manifesto 2021 festival, Toulouse, France, as well as guest of honor for the Frontonais festival, in France in 2022.