RÊVERIE

The Reverie series examines the relationship between photographic representation and emotional perception. While technically perfect images can document a scene with precision, their perfection may prevent them from communicating the emotion the scene actually provokes.

The tension between visual clarity and emotional truth became the conceptual starting point of this series.

Long exposures and  Intentional Camera Mouvement (or ICM) suppress detail and retain only the essential elements of a scene: shapes, contrasts, movements and colours.

Freed from all detail, the photographs become shared experiences.

A trail of colour becomes a path the viewer once walked. The movement of a child becomes the echo of an entirely different childhood. Each person interprets the image through the prism of their own story, and the photograph becomes a place where different lives live alongside one another without ever having crossed paths.

Crépuscule urbain parisien, lumières de lampadaires et ciel bleu en opposition, arbres embrasés, longue exposition ICM — Christophe Lobier fine art photography

Entre jour et nuit

Limited edition of 15 prints

The day had not yet left but the city wanted to light its own suns. The blue of the sky still held, but the streetlights won. Their yellow warmth pierced through everything, setting the trees ablaze. The night had not yet begun, but the city was not going to wait.

Arbre solitaire dans un parc, nature floue et lumineuse, longue exposition ICM, mémoire de l'enfance — Christophe Lobier fine art photography

Un après-midi au parc

Limited edition of 15 prints

It was already there when I was a child. I ran around it without knowing I was building memories. Summer smelled of warm grass, bark and blinding light. We always came back to this tree, without knowing why. Today it still offers me its shade.

Forêt hivernale, longue exposition et mouvement volontaire de l'appareil, lumière dorée — Christophe Lobier photographe artiste

Silhouettes

Limited edition of 15 prints

Snow had covered everything and the clouds had extinguished everything. The sky had won. But in the heart of the greyness, the sun refused to disappear without leaving a trace, tearing the trees from their own matter, reducing them to pure black silhouettes against a backdrop of embers.

Arbre dénudé dans un parc brumeux, entre hiver et printemps, lumière douce et floue, longue exposition ICM, nature contemplative — Christophe Lobier fine art photography

Immobile

Limited edition of 15 prints

Neither fully a shadow, nor fully light. Neither the winter clinging on, nor the spring daring to emerge. The tree stands in the middle, motionless in the blur of the world, guardian of a moment that nobody has been able to name.

Enfant en mouvement flou, robe rouge, silhouette fugace de l'enfance qui s'efface, longue exposition ICM — Christophe Lobier fine art photography

Lucie

Limited edition of 15 prints

We think we can hold onto them. We think that her blazing red, her laughter, her way of running for no reason, that all of it will last. But they are already blurred, joyful ghosts, in a hurry to go live. One day the red fades, the movement slows, and all that remains is the memory of what they once were.

Enfant face à son reflet, double identité, quête de soi — Christophe Lobier fine art photography Paris

Mon autre

Limited edition of 15 prints

She discovered someone who does exactly as she does; who laughs when she laughs, who moves when she moves, who is never absent. The best friend in the world, trapped behind a pane of glass. She does not yet understand the loneliness of that game.

Façade haussmannienne floue, Paris, vies urbaines superposées — Christophe Lobier photographe artiste

Mille fenêtres

Limited edition of 15 prints

A thousand windows, a thousand lives stacked on top of one another, each separated from its neighbour by a few centimetres of plaster and years of silence. It contains them all without knowing any of them, never seeking to know what happens behind those shutters, those drawn curtains, those lights that switch on and off.

Coucher de soleil sur mer, ligne d'horizon entre lumière et obscurité — Christophe Lobier photographe artiste

Soleil

Limited edition of 15 prints

There have always been two worlds. The one the sun touches, that trembles, that moves forward. And the one it ignores, motionless, holding its breath for so long that it has forgotten how to exhale.