Empreintes #4 Print

Fingerprints Durable marks left by an object or living being Impact of human activities on ecosystems Distinctive traces of a mechanical action… Human footprints in the landscape. Landscapes dotted with traces of human activities invite the viewer to feel the history of the place and express their personal vision of the world. Landscapes tell stories: stories of men who cross them, settle there, leave their mark, leave and preserve in their memory the images gleaned here and there. Places like so many links whose intimate and dreamlike dimension the photographer tracks. These landscapes dotted with sometimes faint traces of passage, of occasional or regular human activities, past or in the future, reveal their aesthetic power to the eye. Everyone can project themselves into it. Nostalgic memories, enchanting moments, ephemeral dreams or lasting projects, the observer becomes a witness, perceiving the emotion that the space of the landscape and the magnitude of its history provides. The panorama becomes a mirror of our perceptions. The photographs presented invite us to go beyond the field of vision to discover, in the diffuse and increasingly pervasive presence of humans, the diversity of perspectives and the place of man, in his capacity to reinvent these territories into new ones. realities.