[ morgue ] part 10

finally. here are the final images of the serie and one of my favorite ones of my all time favorite personal work.

the last one says almost everything.

what can I say about it that it doesn't say by itself ?
nothing is everything.

[ morgue ] part 9

I'm back.

Back to this lonely dark place. Again.

Like a ghost.

People can see me. People can see me. But people can't touch me as I can't touch them. I'm like a photography. Fading with time. Fading again. Losing all the colors.

Turning to black.

[ morgue ] part 8

[ morgue ] part 7

[ morgue ] part 6

Actually taht was the first and only shooting I cried in...

The model is an actress and I asked her to cry to fit with the character, the mood.
And after few seconds, after the silence, all I heard was her lament... and I finally cried ! I tried to keep it to myself (don't want the model thinking I'm deranged - wich I am).
Truth is, I give a lot of myself in these shootings. So when it becomes too personal, well... I suffered a LOT you know. How can you explain all that stuff if I was an happy people ?

Anyway, more VAST. Yes again. This is my blog I can do what the fuck I want.

[ morgue ] part 5

if you don't want me, well i don't need you.

[ morgue ] part 4

__________[ cause i am just a cannibal and i will let you see
you are just an animal with a soul soon set free ]

[ morgue ] part 2

[ morgue ] part 1

[ MORGUE ] is one of my favorite shooting.
the first one I really began the exploration of [ HOLE ]. Before that the project was not really clear to me. With this shooting I really started to create an universe and a theme.

The model is Jennifer. I worked with her one year ago for some portrait stuff. That was a first nude shooting. I wanted her for [ HOLE ] because of her innocence. It's more interesting to use angel faces for dark characters. I know I'm deranged.
She had such a beautiful angelic face but with a darker inside world. I did some other cool stuff with her. She's the only model I worked several times on [ HOLE ].

I'll talk more about her an other time. So much to say.
Not a muse or an inspiration but a really cool and beautiful girl to work with :)

[ HOLE IV ] morgue

about the loss...

Before the next serie I would like to talk about the loss.

In the newspaper I read some article about homeless people. And many of them became homeless because they lost a husband, a wife or a child.

It's an idea that tortures me : how the nothing can change everything.

Well, we know that something can do something. A punch can make bruise. A word can make pain. But nothing can do something. Can hurt even more than a thing.
I mean, "nothing" can make you sad, make you cry, make you desperate, give you suicidal tendencies, even kill you.
The loss, the need, the big nothing has more presence and power that a tangible thing.
When you lose somebody you can have feelings more powerful than when you were with this person.

The abyss is more important than the solid ground.

The hole makes us forget the wall.

I'm still amazed that something that doesn't exist can change what's real.

How we can haunted by ghosts that don't even speak to us.
And how fragile can we be when we face the nothingness.

[ nymphose ] part 10

[ nymphose ] part 9

[nymphose] part 8

VAST - you're too young

Every shooting is inspired by songs and music. And I want to use every opportunity to talk about Jon Crosby/VAST. He's my number one inspiration. Love the man. Love the work. If you don't know about VAST I beg you to listen to it.
One of his song was a BIG influence for this shooting. If you hear the lyrics you'll understand why. The girl was 17 and I was 33 by the way...

It's after two
And I am all alone
she appears
She says she'll get me home
We end up lost
Inside a suburban maze
And then she says her house is on the way

I should leave
It's time to go back home now
I should leave
You're too young for me

She has a man
She says he's just a boy
And she won't bite
Unless it brings me joy
I don't know where all the time has gone
I don't know where all the years have gone

I should leave
Put your clothes back on now
I should leave
You're too young for me

I should leave
It's time to go back home now
I should leave
You're too young for me

You're too young for me
You're too young

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[ nymphose ] part 7

[ nymphose ] part 6

By the way why "nymphose" ? Nothing to do with "nympho" you perverts. Even...
It's about losing innocence. Growing up. Transformation. The butterfly, yada yada yada...
It's the story about the filling of emptiness.
I was obsessed about emptiness. How can you feel something that by essence doesn't exist ? How the void can be a presence ? How something that doesn't exist can create something : feelings, actions, changes...

So she's alone. He or she never came. She is all by herself. Nobody to talk to. No one else to see. Nothing but the void. And the void changed her.

She's passing from girl to woman.


Okay maybe there's some reference to sex in the title. But, hey, that's private matter !

[ nymphose ] part 5

[ nymphose ] part 4

[ nymphose ] part 3

[ nymphose ] was shot in may 2007. During a very productive period for photography. The shooting took place during a "marathon". I rent an hotel room for the shooting, so to save money I did 3 shootings with 4 models in this hotel room. The afternoon, the night and in the morning.
I was very tired after that but that was a cool experience.
This is the shooting we did the afternoon.
The funny fact is that was not the hotel I rent for the shooting. I mean when I checked in at the hotel, they told me there was a problem with plumbing so they send me to another hotel and I descovered so room was not as cool as the room I rent. Design is kidda important for my photography. It's like a movie set.
But I figured it out. Anyway I had no choice !