Hi
I am Hélène a French photographer graduated from EFET in Paris. I lived in France, England and Canada before settling in French Polynesia, where I now live and work.
My photographic practice is built around place and time. It is born from the encounter with a territory, long before any project takes shape.
I immerse myself in each place before trying to understand it : its light, its rhythms, what it reveals. Little by little, questions impose themselves on me, and it is around them that a series takes form.
These questions, of course, shift with each place. Sometimes I find myself questioning history, sometimes insularity, absence, or the particular relationship a place holds with time. In Cuba, it is the weight of history on everyday life that strikes me. In Rangiroa, it is insularity, and the relationship with time it imposes, that moves me. Along the coast of northern France, by contrast, it is the absence of the landscape out of season that questions me.
This relationship to place and time remains a thread I keep weaving, series after series, because every territory always has more to reveal and it is this pursuit that I continue to deepen, project after project.