INTERTIDAL 

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This series explores the relationship between humans and nature within the intertidal zone of Sillon Beach (St Malo), where Europe's largest tidal range, governed by the Moon and Sun's gravitational pull, create a cycle that shapes both landscape and human activity. The work examines how we might shift from viewing nature as something to manage, toward recognising our fundamental interdependence with it.

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The project employs a dual approach: documentary photographs capture human activity on the foreshore, accompanied by testimonies from visitors. Bodies move according to ancestral patterns—collecting shells, searching tide pools—revealing our connection to cosmic rhythms. In contrast, experimental chemigrams and photograms invite natural elements—sand, seaweed, seawater—as co-creators. These materials interact directly with photographic emulsion, generating their own "self-portraits" and reversing the traditional observer/observed relationship, embodying the reciprocity at the heart of the work.

 

As Saint-Malo faces rising seas, this project offers a contemplative meditation on adaptation and our belonging to cycles of nature. The series will be exhibited at Photoforum in Switzerland (December 2025 - February 2026) as part of the Photoforum Prix, and at Festival Impulse in Arles (March - June 2026).