




Since the 70s I mainly photograph still lifes in studio with large, even very large format cameras. This very demanding practice requires a certain rigor and great concentration that sometimes borders on a kind of autism. In 1990 Polaroid released, to my great happiness, a new model called in France «Image Elite Pro». It uses films of a new format and offers many features such as image overlay and, with separate accessories, allows to make close-up shots. In short, a little gem that adds to the instantaneity of the process an unexpected technology for this type of device. I discovered it as soon as it was released and immediately fell in love with it. Its use is totally opposite to my studio habits, and becomes a kind of parallel therapy during this long period that goes from 1990 to 2000. Hundreds of images of trips, walks, landscapes, family, friends or people met by chance. The immediate development of the image requires, if we want to make an overprint, to realize it very quickly, without too much thought, looking for the second subject. The result is often unexpected, the result of chance and funny associations of ideas. The unconscious is expelled by the Polaroid rolls and the relationship with the subjects becomes a kind of games and sharing. Another peculiarity of this camera was the need to use a rather ridiculous accessory to focus: a small string coming out of the lens to fix the distance with the subject forced me to approach it-here with a technology that made the operation rather funny. The images were therefore built by necessity with the subject, impossible to steal images with this so singular process. And if we add to this a small overprint of a scenery or a landscape nearby the game becomes complicated and facilitates relationships. And what about the very principle of the Polaroid, a small print that can be left to people who shared with me this little moment of complicity. In short 10 years of freedom and pure pleasure. Its production stops at the end of 2000 and with it the availability of films.... a page is turned. You will find here a selection of the different typologies, I take the opportunity to thank all those who are present on the images and that, in principle, have already had copies, for those who would like to have prints I am at their disposal.