I’ve always been extremely visual, but never seriously engaged in photography until Marie, a French photographer I met in Australia, borrowed me her all-manual Nikon camera and gave me a roll of film to try it.
Because of the delay in viewing the photograph, through the camera’s mechanical functioning and as a result of the process of developing and printing the film, prone to mistakes, but also to unexpected beauty; because of all this - one might say the ‘unruliness’ of analogue photography -, I found something extraordinary.
Photography allows for an unencumbered way of looking at other people. And at the same time it reveals my own obsessions and desires to me. Nothing else comes close to the experience of taking photographs. When photographing, I get lost, in a way that you want to get lost.
And then there is the last part, equally important: waiting and longing to see.
