TROPICAL FRONTIERS . a new documentary photography
My intention as a photographer is to develop a photographic language which allows mankind to better apprehend the climate urgency. With this in mind, I try to translate into images a new conscience which aims to restore Nature as the main author of the narrative of the world.
Artistically, I identify this practice as part of a new contemporary documentary photography, one that “both embraces and breaks through the boundaries of documentary, ethnography and fine art” (Jeffrey Quilter).
In an effort to offset the western-centric bias that has been dominating the conversation, my work focuses on the tropics. Not only is it the cradle of life and its most diverse iteration, but these latitudes are where the majority of nature-based traditional communities remain.
There, I look for frontiers. Not just lines to cross but in-between spaces. Impossible to conceptualise yet empirically undeniable for who seeks them.
Nature and civilisation, that lie respectively on each side, are familiar. But of the frontiers themselves, we can know nothing, for then we would no longer be in the frontier.
Within these frontiers where knowledge fails, I wish to witness moments that echo stories of appropriation and cohabitation and hope to find essential elements of the relation between Nature and Man.