ENTRY DESCRIPTION
“Flower Portraits” is a photographic project exploring my own existence and my relationship to the present moment. The flower portraits are self-portraits, in search for the self by focusing one's consciousness on the present moment. Search within yourself by accepting your feelings, thoughts and bodily sensations. I like to be aware of what's around me and recognise me in the small floral details caught in the light, to translate somehow my feelings at that time.
Please have a look at the full series here:
https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/sgaflowerportrait/

AUTHOR
I photograph what surrounds me.
What I feel, rather than what I see.

I often find what I’m looking for in the shadows.
A light, a silence, a detail others might overlook.
My images are not staged. I walk, I observe, I take my time.

I photograph what slips between things.
Landscapes, walls, flowers, heat, wind.
I’m not trying to document — I want to convey a feeling.

Some series are more abstract, others more grounded in reality.
But all stem from a physical, almost vital need to slow down.
To look differently.
To breathe.

I work exclusively in digital, including with a pinhole-style lens for certain series.
Blur, deep blacks, burnt textures, white voids — these are choices.
They speak to what we can’t control. To climate. To fragility. To the living world.

My prints are offered in limited editions, on various materials.
I favor simple formats, matte papers, minimal framing.
I’m not interested in creating luxury objects, but rather images one can live with.

I live in Switzerland, though I am also French.
My work has been shown in Geneva, Paris, Athens, and in the U.S.,
and published in several photographic journals.
Some series have received awards, others have remained unseen.
That’s not what matters most to me.

I am represented by Galerie Fahid Taghavi in Geneva,
and a selection of my series is permanently presented by Corridor Elephant.

What I aim for is to strike a chord.

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