We discover more about ourselves by projecting ourselves onto the outside world than in the introspection of a diary.
Annie Ernaux
Journal Extime is a project combining photography and writing. It is constituted of a hundred and sixty photographs taken with a Holga Camera, medium format 100% plastic camera of Chinese origin described by the manufacturer as the "people's camera". The photographs were taken in my daily life over a period of ten years, like a visual notebook. Thirty-four of them are accompanied by texts written by others, upon my request.
In 2020, I sent a selection of 160 images out of the hundreds produced to people in my circle, both personal and professional, who have a writing practice (fiction, poetry, theatre, song, screenplay, historian, critic, diary, etc.). I asked them to write for me the text that would accompany an image of their choice, a page of what would become our diary, and then to recommend someone who could in turn write a page of our Journal Extime (Unpersonal Diary).
An intimate and fictional polyphony whose starting point is my gaze, but whose interest lies above all in the dialogue it generates with the other, with their own experience and imagination.
It is a collective work and a participatory book project in the form of a notebook, whose pages one can fill in freely, wherever the text does not yet exist.
Text Clémentine Amouroux
Text Charles Robinson
Text Astrid Chaffringeon
Text Joël Beaumont
Text Gilles Cailleau
Text François Le Bagousse aka Fanch
We discover more about ourselves by projecting ourselves onto the outside world than in the introspection of a diary.
Annie Ernaux
Journal Extime is a project combining photography and writing. It is constituted of a hundred and sixty photographs taken with a Holga Camera, medium format 100% plastic camera of Chinese origin described by the manufacturer as the "people's camera". The photographs were taken in my daily life over a period of ten years, like a visual notebook. Thirty-four of them are accompanied by texts written by others, upon my request.
In 2020, I sent a selection of 160 images out of the hundreds produced to people in my circle, both personal and professional, who have a writing practice (fiction, poetry, theatre, song, screenplay, historian, critic, diary, etc.). I asked them to write for me the text that would accompany an image of their choice, a page of what would become our diary, and then to recommend someone who could in turn write a page of our Journal Extime (Unpersonal Diary).
An intimate and fictional polyphony whose starting point is my gaze, but whose interest lies above all in the dialogue it generates with the other, with their own experience and imagination.
It is a collective work and a participatory book project in the form of a notebook, whose pages one can fill in freely, wherever the text does not yet exist.
Text Clémentine Amouroux
Text Charles Robinson
Text Astrid Chaffringeon
Text Joël Beaumont
Text Gilles Cailleau
Text François Le Bagousse aka Fanch