TITLE: aqueous

all-night friends, relegated observer or witness
being there, spongy universe, fanstamagory of shadows and lights
land surrounded by water, precarious buoyancy, fights against the ether, vain, all deaf
ambient rustle... disturbing, mystery of a moonless darkness
relegated observer or witness, be there again, moist, dew-pearls
fallen angel, unreachable beyond, endless attempts, futile attempts
being alone, panting, defeated, improbable universe, impossible beyond.

These are couple of words of the white lady... living hidden in a peat bog... she gave up with social life...

AUTHOR: Stephane Ploix (France)

I started making photographs 30 years ago with exclusively black & white analog films. I learnt by myself, studying the works of other photographers, investigating different technics and topics but mostly practicing street photography. The transition to digital photography stopped my work for more than 20 years. A couple of years ago, I rediscovered photography with digital devices and software, learning new tools and appreciating a lot all the new capabilities... I am now focusing on expressive photographs, might be not beautiful: I don't care.  As said Nicolaï Gogol "always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord". Real beauty is not obvious but complex and takes time to be discovered. Useful is crucial here because photographs should deal with the complexity beyond the words. Astonishing photographs are too easy to be essential... Photography is a way to discover oneself and others thanks to introversion and questioning... 

From 2016, I spent 2 years improving my technical skills including studio photographs and all the technics made possible by digital photography: I had to master all of that because it yields freedom in composition. Now technics are no more technics ... they are obvious and intuitive ... now I get what I want ... I feel ready to develop what I have to do ... Working on different series, I use photographs to tell complexity of life ... Photography is a mirror of my recurrent questionings...Although I am interested in other works, I am stubborn: it helps to follow my own way… my way of understanding complexity.