ANIMA

Where the name fades, the soul appears.
Là où le nom s'efface, l'âme paraît.
Vestigia Lucis
Purpose

That the living presence of a being may outlast the instant it was seen.

Que la présence du vivant demeure au-delà de l'instant.
The grammar

Four ways of seeing.
One body of work.

A puma reduced to a dark silhouette, its edge lit like an eclipse in front of the sun.
I
FORMA
Every presence begins with a contour.
A lone gentoo penguin dwarfed by a vast, pale expanse of ice
II
SOLITVDO
Scale reveals what the eye alone cannot.
gentoo penguins diving throught blue water in trailing streams of bubbles
III
IMPETVS
Life is never still.
a large elephant with a single white egret against a pale empty background
IV
VINCVLVM
No being exists alone.
SELECTED WORKS

A selection from the living collection.

The Collection
ThE MONOGRAPH

From light to paper.

The ANIMA monograph cover - a mountain gorilla's face emerging from deep shadow, eyes catching the light
Photography book first edition - spring 2027
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THE ARTISTS

One gaze. Two hands. One body of work.

This is where the gaze begins.
Romain Barats underwater, aiming his camera beside a whale shark
Romain Barats
Cecile Gabillon  pointing a camera taking a picture of a young mountain gorilla
Cécile Gabillon
The Artists
THE CONTINUUM

Beyond the image.

A way of seeing becomes a way of being.