Photomanipulation 1st place winner

In French, you don’t have «a lot on your plate», but «some bread on the board».
You can read this image with two different filters.
First of all, I intended it as a message of hope to all overworked and burnt-out persons: while some tasks at hands seem too strenuous or demanding, in the end we’ll manage to slice the loafs down to the very last one, and it'll be immensly satisfying.
But it also questions our way of life: how and why do we end up in such seemingly non-sensical, unsolvable situations, either in our professional or personnal lifes?

This image is part of the Literally series, focused on idiomatic expressions, which aims at questionning the language and its subjectivity, and by extent our relation to others and to reality.

French photographer based in Brittany, I love to play with words and colours.

I'm currently working on a series focused on idiomatic expressions: the Literally series aims at questionning the language and its subjectivity, and by extent our relation to others and to reality.
It draws on the photographic language and the universal nature of images to give new meanings to these old idioms in order to make them tell a different story.
In colourful, multi-layered compositions, I tackle various relevant modern topics and let ultimately the viewer come up with its own interpretation.

• Tokyo International Photo Awards 2023: Bronze in Fine Art/Other category
• 9th Fine Art Photo Awards: 2nd place in the Photomanupulation/Amateur category
• 9th Fine Art Photo Awards 2022: 1st place in the Photomanupulation/Amateur category; Nomination in Amateur/Conceptual category
• ND Awards 2021: Honorable Mention
• Chromatic Photo Awards 2021: 2nd place in the Photomanupulation/Amateur category
• Lens Culture HOME ’21: Editor’s pick