Kallitypes
L'invitation au voyage

Photography improves in a constant way, forever in the same direction. Films are faster, lenses more luminous, shutters are working at 1/4000 s. Images of our world that condescend to stay in our mind are such tiny moments, joined end to end, they rarely excess a few minutes. The waves of images are invading our daily world without giving us the time to really see them. Television, video, newspapers, magazines, publicity and posters bring everyday a stupefying harvest of what some still dare to call "choc des images" (image impact).

As a reaction to this tendency of photography, I wanted very much to find a way to depart, travel, photograph and send very personal and emotional images to some friends. I wanted this photography to be quite elementary (rudimentary) and concentrated. By concentrated, I mean that the concentration of the photographer, between the exposure and the final result, should not relax. A complete cycle of image creation would have to happen at the same place without discontinuity. The photographic image would then be able to become impregnated with the location and the confrontation of the photographer with his subject would last more than 1/125 of a second. The pinhole camera is the only solution because of its exposure time of many minutes.