This is a topographic series of eight places within the limited scope of a small provincial town in France: Nevers. The series gathers modest, commonplace elements from urban surroundings that tend to become invisible from neglect or indifference, though they partake of the peculiar character and beauty of a town. These pictures invite us to take a fresh look at our urban environment, first of all the place where we live. By roaming around Nevers on a daily basis, I keep documenting its common beauty, its familiar singularity, so that Nevers may remain in our mind’s eye and never be forgotten.
After practising photography as a hobby since my teenage years, I bought a digital camera ten years ago and set out on new ground, with a different approach. The works of such photographers as Stephen Shore, Lewis Baltz, Alexander Gronsky, Eugène Atget, Raymond Depardon, Philippe Bazin or Thibault Cuisset have deeply inspired and stimulated me over the past years. My own work has developed around several topics : urban landscape, rural landscape, industrial architecture, but also all the smallthings that are around us and which we tend to ignore as they seem trivial, outdated or discarded.
