Stéphane Mahé
FRANCE
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For the past fifteen years, Stéphane Mahé has been carrying out intimate and pictorial photographic work that reveals an interior journey both beyond time and space. His series Somewhere deploys a dreamlike and cinematographic universe where wandering appears like a photographic quest.
A founding member of the 360ouest agency specializing in 360 ° spherical photography, Stéphane Mahé intensively practiced photography for some time and occasionally collaborated with various news websites. The desire to move towards a more personal photography gave birth to a first collaboration with Éditions de Juillet and Arnaud Le Gouëfflec for the book Terminus Saint-Malo in the Villes Mobiles collection and various exhibitions. Today, the photographic adventure continues with the Somewhere series: an eponymous book was published by Editions de Juillet in 2018, and the series was exhibited in 2019 at the Tour Bidouane in Saint-Malo (France), at the Promenades Photographiques de Vendôme (France), at the Dialogues bookstore in Brest (France), at the Imagerie gallery in Lannion (France).
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"This is a place where time fades. A place where the physical contours of matter fade away. Here photography rediscovers the delicacy of the 19th century pictorialists. In his proposal, Stéphane Mahé opens a window onto an impalpable elsewhere and invites us to step aside, in search of a second reality. Somewhere on the edge of the world. The place, the time does not matter ... Here, the one who watches interprets, invents, tells his story, his stories.
Somewhere is a sequence of images that articulate like a feverish breath in which each photograph is autonomous and offers the gaze the possibility of a beginning.
Somewhere is of course somewhere: somewhere between yesterday and tomorrow, somewhere between the corner and the end of the field; a place so familiar and yet, apart from one detail, so different, that you want to slowly get lost in it ".