Le Havre on the beach at night
I showed the beach at night full of people among blazing lights. But usually, the beach is more like this. The immense space covered with pebbles with a board walk, which is no board anymore but concrete. Far away, you can see this food shop glowing and I don't think I would want to buy anything there. It is almost like a Fellini movie, except we are not in Italy but on the northern coast of France. Depending of the mood you are in, it could be sad, or on the contrary rather jolly. Night pictures are treacherous. They give a false identity to what is really there. But maybe it is the same for daylight pictures. Do we really know where we are, where we stand ? Hidden behind the camera, you are in fact moving the time into the future. You think of what it will look like when you see the image sometimes later. It could be hours, but it could also be months or years. And over time, it will convey a different sensation. Sometimes, you don't want to see what happened years ago.