Field Notes

Journal

Behind the series. The films chosen. What was sought before it was found.

Kodak Gold

Polish Hike

Tatras, Zakopane, August 2025

August 2025. Zakopane. Four days hiking in the Tatras with my girlfriend, from the Polish border to the high-altitude lakes. I had a roll of Kodak Gold in the Rollei 35. Nothing else needed when the mountain is there.

Kodak Portra 400

White Mounts

Southern Alps, January 2025

January 2025. Southern Alps. A weekend with a group of friends, in a resort I didn't know. I had the Rollei 35 and a roll of Portra 400. The idea wasn't to make a series, just to have the film on me if something presented itself.

CineStill 400D

Puglia Famiglia

Puglia, Italy, August 2024

August 2024. Puglia. Nine days with family, between Lecce, Otranto and the Adriatic coast. I had a roll of CineStill 400D in the Rollei 35 and a specific plan: do something with southern light, using a film made for cinema. The Purple Noon aesthetic was the starting point.

Rollei Retro 400S

Retro Mountain

Thollon-les-Mémises, January 2024

January 2024. Thollon-les-Mémises. A week skiing with my friend Amaury. I had loaded the Rollei with a Retro 400S two days before leaving. This emulsion, I wanted to see what it would do with snow.

Kodak Gold 400

A Winter in the Fruit

New York, Manhattan, December 2023

December 2023. I had been on a university exchange in Montreal for a few months. I took a bus from Berri-UQAM station to New York, twelve hours on the road. I had loaded the Rollei 35 with Kodak Gold 400 before getting on. No shooting plan. Just the idea that New York deserved to be looked at as a perspective error: too large, too vertical, too well-known to be actually seen.

LomoChrome Turquoise

Psychadelic MTL

Montreal, Quebec, October 2023

October 2023. Montreal. I had been on exchange at McGill since August, through to December. I had bought a roll of LomoChrome Turquoise from a developer I knew there, a few weeks after arriving. I had had months to prepare this series. This film does strange things with color: I had decided that Montreal in autumn was the right place to see what it would do.

Kodak Portra 400

Canadian Evasion

Quebec, Canada, August 2023

August 2023. Five days after arriving in Montreal for the exchange, I took my backpack and left on foot toward Mont-Tremblant. No car, no fixed plan. I had the Rollei 35, a box of Kodak Portra 400, and twelve days ahead of me.

Kodak Portra 400

Mauvais Garçons

Paris, Marais — Île Saint-Louis, April 2023

April 2023. Gabriel agreed to shoot without really knowing what I was looking for. Neither did I. I just knew there was something in the way he occupied clothes, waited on his motorcycle without checking his phone, existed in public space as if the present belonged to him. I loaded the Nikon F-301 with Kodak Portra 400 and we went to the Marais.

Polish Hike

White Mounts

Puglia Famiglia

Retro Mountain

A Winter in the Fruit

Psychadelic MTL

Canadian Evasion

Mauvais Garçons

Soutenez mon travail.