17 janvier 2015Aucun commentaire

Ello. 17, jan 2015. Positive Motion, This is Aurore

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Positive Motion, This is Aurore

Since my very first post on Ello, I promised I would talk about pictures. The thing is I’m not really fond of talking about the past, I’m more concerned with present and future ; that’s why I didn’t post about previous photo sessions. I’ve just published a new shoot about the series « Positive Motion », so I bet this is the right time.

Positive Motion is born something like 3 years ago now. The main aim was to express positive feelings and emotion, without getting into the traditional clichés of little girls running in a bright sunny field and butterflies :) Well, the first thing I learned was it was really easier to express negative feelings than positive emotions. It’s easier to have a strong black and white with contrast, to show muscles and pain, to have deep make up. So I went and look for a vector. Something to lye on that would help me this my way of expression.

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8 janvier 2015Aucun commentaire

Je suis Charlie

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Very unusual post today, not directly related with my photographic work but still. Yesterday, in Paris, 12 people were murdered in their Newspaper office by two guys claiming to avenge Mahomet Prophet. We still don't know if this was really the motive, but among that 12 people, 2 were cops and 4 were very talented and famous illustrators working for Charlie Hebdo newspaper.

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18 décembre 2014Aucun commentaire

Ello. 18 dec, 2014. The created image video series

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The created image video series
NOTE : This is NOT another f\*cking sponsored post!

I’m a huge consumer of pro tips, tutorials, behind the scene stuff and I am very often very frustrated with it. I think that I’m starving for this kind of material, just because I’m a self-made photographer. I’ve never followed a course or took a lesson, only focused on finding my own means of expression and learned everything by myself. Yeah, that’s maybe why my level on some specific stuff is very poor, or you might consider my entire work is crap :x

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15 décembre 2014Aucun commentaire

Ello. 15 dec, 2014. Forward to film

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Forward to film
Yesterday night I made my second try in developing 35mm film. I could have called this ’Back to 35mm film', but truth is this not a back action, it’s moving forward. Somebody told me I was probably looking for Vintage. Hell no, I’m looking for more manual action, interaction with physical media instead of having a full digital chain.

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12 décembre 2014Aucun commentaire

Ello. 12 dec, 2014. Something clever

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Something clever.
As a first post on Ello, I would like probably to have something clever to say ; at least more clever than just Hello Ello or I ate an Apple this morning. Maybe that’s the good time to start thinking about the purpose of social networking, self image and how I would like to use it, to make people feel, but wait...

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4 juillet 20132 Comments

Backstages: bye bye instragram, hello tumblr

Depuis que j'ai retrouvé un semblant de vie numérique (comprendre, depuis que doloopidette m'a rapporté un iphone 5 des US), je m'étais remis à poster des screenshots ou des backstages sur instagram. Sauf que avant hier, j'ai été un peu trop audacieux et paf un bout de téton sur une image. Mon compte s'est aussitôt fait "flagged".

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11 mai 2012Aucun commentaire

Héroïne.

Un billet un peu particulier et exceptionnel sur le blog aujourd'hui, il est rare que je m'exprime sur le sujet directement mais c'est par la voix d'un autre que je communique aujourd'hui.

Le contexte : un groupe Facebook "Les pires mails de photographes". Il en contient des perles, tant le monde de la photographie "amateur" (bien que rien que ce terme nécessiterai de m’épancher en longues lignes insipides) est un pas-toujours-joyeux bordel. Sur ce groupe, un trublion qui signe sous le nom de Elsephir Libre m'a gentiment autorisé à réproduire ici un post qui rejoint à tel point ma façon de voir les choses en ce moment, que je n'ai plus qu'a me la fermer et à vous lacher le pavé.

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