Section: Visual arts
The ghosts of Camaret

The ghosts of Camaret

If the «filles de Camaret» have been immortalized in a song that's more bawdy than downright poetic, it's indeed a form of poetry - but rusty, faded, salty, abandoned - that haunts the boat graveyard at Camaret-Sur-Mer, at the end of the Crozon peninsula in Brittany's Finistère region.
US Bricks & Words

US Bricks & Words

Brick: a building material made of clay, in the shape of a rectangular parallelepiped, says the dictionary. Which forgets the function of blotting paper, as the walls become impregnated with lettering from another time, telling the story of the city before. Examples from across the Atlantic and antichronologically from Denver, Colorado, to Flagstaff, Arizona.
Snow in colors

Snow in colors

Snow in colors—or, more precisely, snow and colors—which stand out all the more when the «white blanket,» as the song goes, tries to cover them up. A stroll, not on Kilimanjaro, but through the city of Neuchâtel.
At the heart of the music

At the heart of the music

Symphonic music is a vast, tempestuous stream. What if we went back to its source, to the center of its gush, right next to the musicians and choristers? Immerse yourself in the heart of the Ensemble symphonique neuchâtelois (ESN) and the Cantabile Choir.
Electricity Fairy

Electricity Fairy

«A long time ago, we used to say »fairy electricity" to evoke a new and almost miraculous form of energy. Today, despite the threat of blackouts, we've become accustomed to its tidiness, sheathing and padlocking. But sometimes, at the bend in the road, we discover works of art of a sort, somewhere between carefree ramshackle and unexpectedly aesthetic. Stopovers in Tucson, Arizona, Guadeloupe and the Pyrénées-Orientales.
Red marble

Red marble

My first series of images for Le Regard Libre was devoted to the white marble quarries of Carrara. A year later, I set course for Caunes-Minervois, in the Aude department, to discover a more discreet deposit, which has nevertheless supplied incarnate marble to such famous landmarks as the Grand Trianon in Versailles, the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel in Paris and the Great Mosque in Cordoba...