MANIFESTO

For a photography that no longer harms.

I no longer want to make images the way one extracts.
I refuse to take part in the exhaustion of forms, in the capture of the world.

I seek a photography without extraction, without toxic chemistry, without domination.
I seek a slower, more fragile, more just gesture, less certain.
I seek a way of dwelling.

I use what I have on hand: paper, plants, water, time.
I walk, I listen, I observe.
I do not want to force anything, nor steal anything.

One question guides me:
How can we create images without destroying?
And if everything were to collapse, how would we continue to create, with almost nothing, otherwise?

What I attempt here is not a solution, even less an answer.
It is an experience. A gesture of attention. A living inquiry.
A refusal of indifference.

To photograph, for me, is to keep watch.
It is about caring, rather than taking.
It is about seeking ethics in the gesture, and presence in its integrity.

I do not yet know exactly what I’m seeking.
But I know what I no longer want.
And that’s enough, to begin with.

I describe my approach as post-extractivist, in the sense that I refuse the act of taking or dominating the landscape, in favor of a slow, situated, and respectful attention.

This momentum I’m initiating will rely on words, images, and actions, in an attempt to resist extractive logics (mining, tourism, water, forestry, human…) that have transformed our living environments.

With the project Veilleuses, in August 2025, I am laying a sentinel intention.
I am inaugurating a new posture: photographing without appropriating, creating without extracting, wandering with the aim to collect rather than to capture.