Attentes #17 — The Path of Light Photograph - Limited Edition of 7

Philippe Moisan is a French photographer whose contemplative black-and-white work explores solitude, spiritual refuge, and the poetry of light. Born in the 1960s to two graphic artists in Paris, he grew up immersed in visual culture, surrounded by the drawings, photographs, and stories of artists like Bernard Gorsky, Claude Sauvageot, and Robert Doisneau. After studying French literature and philosophy, Moisan moved to Berlin in 1984 during the Cold War. It was there, among winter train rides, Wagner's operas, and the icy countryside, that his lifelong fascination with silence and landscape took root — later rekindled in the romantic visions of Caspar David Friedrich. He studied art history at the École du Louvre under scholars such as Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt and Pierre Amiet. His early career included lecturing in museums and guiding visitors through the intricacies of art and history, before shifting to a decade of fashion and lifestyle photography in Europe and the U.S. A turning point came in São Paulo in 2001, where he lived for twelve transformative years. Immersed in the vertical chaos of the city, he turned his lens to anonymous figures and urban solitude. This experience laid the foundation for his personal photographic path: poetic, intuitive, and deeply human. After leaving commercial work, Moisan began to travel extensively, seeking moments of stillness and transcendence in forests, temples, ruins, and light. His photography draws from Romanticism, Expressionism, and Pictorialism, but also from Japanese and Buddhist sensibilities. He sees his practice as akin to archery or meditation — a form of "floating attention." Now based in Bangkok, he continues to explore the interplay of impermanence, spirituality, and inner landscapes. Whether photographing cathedrals or forests, abandoned highways or sacred groves, his images invite the viewer to pause — to wait — and to experience light as a form of refuge.