People of Brest

“People of Brest” is a series of portraits, places, moods, from Britany. Pictures are longing for sincerity, truth and authenticity. People are posing but not playing. They reveal themselves. They could be our neighbor, our baker, our cousin, our children. Portraits of people of all ages, gender, alone or not, exposed through their simplicity or in derision of their gimmicks. The place is theirs and theirs only. They seem thoughtful with an interior look or on the contrary straightforward and unreachable. We guess their strength and weakness. There’s a mystery about them, as if each of them was hiding a secret behind a look somehow lost. These portraits show the beauty and difference in everyone. Each of them, locked within the mystery of their uniqueness, is a fascinating brother whose inaccessible part paradoxically brings us together. All these images, these faces, this bittersweet sadness, question Life itself and the human condition. The Breton landscapes mirror those persons: enigmatic, beautiful and magical. They echo the tales and legends which feed the people of Brest.