Deterioration - Rusty façade - Edition 1 of 5 Photograph

Raised in France, I learnt to notice and appreciate the passage of time on buildings. As a photographer, videographer and sound artist, I explore how capital investments in industries and housing affect people, sometimes compelling workers and residents to move away. Since 2000, my work has explored BC mining, fishing and forestry communities that have been abandoned or on the edge to be erased. As a result, future generations may become unable to experience these endangered ways of living. I have also developed a photographic abstraction style as seen in the works Deterioration, Through, Precaution, and Night Language. In industrial sites, I come across shapes, lines and layers which I study closely, abstracting images from the subject and sometimes creating optical effects.