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Christine b lives in a village in the foothills of the
Pyrenees, in south-west France. She shares her life with her
15 years old son and her horses, dog and cat.
Photography and painting have been part of her life since
childhood. She bought her first camera when she was eleven
and started to work in a darkroom while at secondary school.
She also organized trekking in the Pyrenees with a few friends
and teachers.
Living close to nature, from which she takes her energy and
inspiration, she decided to leave her job several years ago,
in order to spend most of her time outdoors, becoming a pilgrim
into the wild.
Coming back to photography after a gap of 25 years, Christine
b dedicates her work to nature, observing her forms and colours
and the progress of life. She sees her work as a homage to
creation and relishes the way that her contemplation turns
active when making photography.
Share the wilderness of Ariege and reflect on the view of
the fox Arthur as he travels as a messenger from a forgotten
place in south-west France to the cities, watching things
and time passing by, is the main purpose of the photographer,
inviting the viewer to take time and rest in peaceful places,
where nobody appears. Loneliness leads to deep thoughts and
to calm, which is considered by Christine b as a necessary
food as well as the fruits of nature.
The collection of photography eschews the use of digital
photography, as Christine b prefers to remain with film in
what she sees as a true love story between the photographer
and the camera. Her work is regularly exhibited at individual
and group shows in France and recently in London, while she
plans to visit China.
“My works is a review of the nature in Ariege in pictures
and not words. I seek to communicate the power of elemental
nature in restful places, where it sounds quietest. Watching
and feeling the beauty and wonder of those surroundings, I
wonder which of us is more real, me or the fox.
I want to making art as simple as possible, inviting to enter
a world of fairytales, where the hero is a fox, bringing secrets
in the natural light of outdoors photography and calling to
more imagination so that picture become stories.”
May I talk about ART?
Art is a way of expressing my first emotions. Photography
has come to art very late for my part. I think all photographers
are artists. Photography changed art, I believe that. I would
love and will work differently in the future: making from
my pictures true paintings, in my dark room. I would love
to blend photography and painting, which is very important
to me. Art makes you seek the light, art makes you travel
even if you can not move from your house. Art brings souls
to heaven or to hell depending on the results. Art is part
of the nature and all cultures and can not disappear. THIS
IS WHAT WILL STAY FOREVER; I believe ART feeds me. I like
the way artists bring their thoughts and emotion through artistic
creation. Art is everywhere this is what I believe. Art is
part of us, we are a result of the art too. I wonder if Art
is not the power of life, the one that created the Earth and
the universe…Art is moving, according to places and
time. Art calls for all our senses : we see, we hear, we touch,
and we are fed with it. ART is necessary to us, everyday from
the beginning to the end. Art can be very simple and very
hard to understand, to feel. Art is the results of our thoughts
with the ability to show our deep feelings in a material way.
Art is never-ending and this is what makes life most interesting
to me. I like the idea of creating art with nothing too! Just
as a blank photography for instance. Art is really long to
explain, as it started such a long time ago ! What would we
be without art? Another question is: are animals artists too
? Why should we think art does belong to human being only?
If you look birds nesting, you will find beautiful works.
If you look birds dancing when they want to seduce you can
see the most beautiful performance, and it is the same for
each animal, not only for us. Art is everywhere; and there
is no way to describe it. It is just as the number of stars
in the skies: you can not say how many there are, so I believe
I will never stop describing art. My art is so simple that
he leads you to the origin of life : the nature.
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