Camera Sauvage — The Territory
Camera Sauvage starts from a simple gesture: treating the street as a studio and the Marolles as raw material. In this neighbourhood I collect what the city leaves behind — objects from the Jeu de Balle market, plants growing between the paving stones, and expired films and photo papers from the stalls. Everything I find becomes part of the process: camera, developer, surface, and memory.
Outdated film and old paper already carry time inside them. They produce fragile, breaking colours and images that feel like faded recollections. In this way, the history of the Marolles literally seeps into the photographs. The neighbourhood does not just appear in the image; it develops the image from within.
The works in this section focus on how territory leaves traces on material: scratches, stains, light leaks, chemical veils.
They mirror the Marolles as I experience it — lively, worn, energetic, chaotic and warm — a place that never fully settles, just like the images themselves.
2025
