Who said the rocks were all gray? No Aurore Bagarry, whose work is exhibited at the Gwinzegal Art Center in Guingamp, Western France. His photographs, captured along the Atlantic coast, from Brittany to Gironde, and even to Martinica, reveal thousands of nuances and meticulous details. From bait to purple, passing through the blue and ocher board, the exposed rocks, gathered in a beautiful book with a text by the geologist Philippe Boulvais, sacrifice the spectators an unexpected rainbow with an adhesive palette. “We always have the impression that rocks are monochromatic, but they are colored by history,” explains the photographer. “They are dyed by plant or animal elements. The moon is gray because there is no life …” The coast, where it likes to place its camera, an area subject to the alternation of tides, is alive and full of color.
In the manner of 19Th-Cutation of photographers of the century, the photographer has brought his heavy large -format analog camera (almost 12 kg of equipment to load) since his early days to translate contemporary landscapes into images. However, his first passion was far from the sea. With a family that originates in the French Alps and a child fascination with the majestic mountains and their strong imaginative potential, it was initially proposed to photograph glaciers and their missing whiteness. This led to two books: GlaciersVolumes I and II.
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