TAIWAN - Entre chiens et loups
Lorsque le soleil se couche et que la vie nocturne de Taiwan emerge dans l obscurite, des ombres apparaissent dans la brume electrique et le petit theatre de la ville prend vie. J aborde la photographie de rue exactement comme j aborde la photographie animaliere, avec le meme processus. Je me place "a bon vent", je trouve mon cadre, ma lumiere, et je n ai plus qu a laisser venir les protagonistes, sans les deranger... l instinct fera le reste. Le soir, juste apres 18h, les Taiwanais commencent a rentrer chez eux, le soleil tombe, le rythme du coeur ralentit, tout comme celui de la ville c est a ce moment precis que, plus que jamais, Formosa semble echapper au temps, tiraillee entre des traditions bien ancrees et une modernite galopante. Les instincts sont liberes car avec la lumiere naturelle qui s estompe, chacun baisse la garde, les codes sociaux s evanouissent un peu, les apparences se relachent. C est dans cette breche ouverte dans la penombre que se revele notre nature animale, au sein meme de la ville.
Ma photographie a toujours ete influencee par le cinema et je sens plus que jamais dans cette serie que mon imaginaire est porte par Wong Kar-wai, Hou Hsiao-Hsien ou Shohei Imamura ... C est alors, entoures de la lumiere des temples, des neons et des lanternes, que les Taiwanais deviennent les personnages d un film. Un film intitule "Entre chiens et loups".
TAIWAN - Between dogs and wolves
When the sun sets and Taiwan s nightlife emerges in the darkness, shadows appear in the electric haze and the small theater of the city comes alive. I approach street photography exactly as I approach wildlife photography, with the same process. I place myself "upwind", I find my frame, my light, and I just have to let the protagonists come, without disturbing them... instinct will do the rest. In the evening, just after 6pm, the Taiwanese start to go back home, the sun falls, the rhythm of the heart slows down, as does that of the city. it is at this precise moment that, more than ever, Formosa seems to escape time, torn between deeply rooted traditions and galloping modernity. The instincts are released because with the natural light which fades, each one lowers the guard, the social codes vanish a little, the appearances slacken. It is in this breach opened in the half-light that our animal nature is revealed, within the city itself.
My photography has always been influenced by cinema and I feel more than ever in this series that my imagination is carried by Wong Kar-wai, Hou Hsiao-Hsien or Shohei Imamura ... It is then, surrounded by the light of temples, neon lights and lanterns, that the Taiwanese become the characters of a film. A film entitled ?Between dogs and wolves?.
