I fell in love with photography and have been doing it since I was a teenager, starting with film and developing prints in my parents’ basement. I still remember the emotion I felt every time the image appeared on the blank paper, in the darkness illuminated by the red light…
I have travelled extensively throughout my life and continue to do so, and it has been my main source of inspiration for many years, primarily filled with distant landscapes and portraits of strangers met along the way. For a very long time, I had no desire to show my work or expose myself to the gaze of others, but I took a leap of faith in 2014 and revealed my work.
Over time, my work has evolved into something more abstract, more personal. I am fascinated by reflections on water, sand, or wet pavements, drops on dirty windows, spots of color, light, blurs… And I particularly love exploring these blurs, creating movement in stillness, redefining space and its boundaries, playing with shadows and shapes, stretching the horizon into infinity, most often in an urban landscape. The door that then opens to the unknown, to imagination, finally brings me freedom, far from the conventional codes of photography.
I create the prints myself, without using Photoshop, simply by experimenting with the texture of various papers, sometimes giving my pictures, the appearance of drawings or paintings, sowing doubt. From time to time, I even feel them coming to life…
The work I present here was created in Le Havre, in Normandy, during the periods between lockdowns. The Covid pandemic, by clipping my wings, prompted a deeper focus on my hometown, to see it differently with fresh eyes, to wander and explore it as if it were unfamiliar to me, distant and filled with mysteries, the very city where I spent my childhood.
The works presented here are reflections, captured under the title: Reflexions à LH
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