{"id":9526,"date":"2026-08-21T11:25:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T10:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yanndatessen.fr\/yann-2\/?page_id=9526"},"modified":"2026-08-21T11:46:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T10:46:32","slug":"photo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/yanndatessen.fr\/?page_id=9526","title":{"rendered":"PHOTO +"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"yd-photo-plus\">\n<header class=\"yd-photo-plus-intro\">\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-publication\">PHOTO+ \u00b7 48e num\u00e9ro \u00b7 2014<\/div>\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-subtitle\">Interview with Yann Datessen<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-visuals\">\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-9526 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/yanndatessen.fr\/?attachment_id=9530'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"701\" src=\"https:\/\/yanndatessen.fr\/yann-2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_7889-1024x701-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yanndatessen.fr\/yann-2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_7889-1024x701-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/yanndatessen.fr\/yann-2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_7889-1024x701-1-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yanndatessen.fr\/yann-2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_7889-1024x701-1-768x526.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/yanndatessen.fr\/?attachment_id=9531'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"713\" src=\"https:\/\/yanndatessen.fr\/yann-2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_7902-1024x713-1.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yanndatessen.fr\/yann-2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_7902-1024x713-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/yanndatessen.fr\/yann-2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_7902-1024x713-1-300x209.png 300w, https:\/\/yanndatessen.fr\/yann-2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_7902-1024x713-1-768x535.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-interview\">\n<p><!-- QUESTION 01 --><\/p>\n<section class=\"yd-photo-plus-question\">\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-number\">01<\/div>\n<h2>I am impressed with your work <em>&lt;L\u00e9th\u00e9&gt;<\/em>,<br \/>\nWhen did you start to shoot it? And what made you start<br \/>\nto do this series?<\/h2>\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-answer\" lang=\"fr\">\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-lang\">FR<\/div>\n<p>J&rsquo;ai r\u00e9alis\u00e9 cette s\u00e9rie entre Mai et Octobre 2013,<br \/>\nen descendant le fleuve de <em>la Garonne<\/em> dans le sud<br \/>\nde la France, entre les villes de Bordeaux et Toulouse.<br \/>\nAu d\u00e9part, je voulais aborder l&rsquo;id\u00e9e d&rsquo;<em>odyss\u00e9e<\/em>,<br \/>\nune d\u00e9rive, des tourments, des \u00e9preuves, peut-\u00eatre r\u00e9aliser<br \/>\nun <em>Ulysse<\/em> (\u00e0 bien y regarder on peut d&rsquo;ailleurs<br \/>\nretrouver un cyclope, des Lotophages, une Circ\u00e9, une Calypso,<br \/>\ndes m\u00e9duses, la construction d&rsquo;Ithaque&#8230;) quelqu&rsquo;un qui<br \/>\ncherche \u00e0 revenir chez lui, ou qui cherche \u00e0 retrouver<br \/>\nquelqu&rsquo;un qu&rsquo;il a aim\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Puis, au fur et \u00e0 mesure que j&rsquo;avan\u00e7ai dans mon projet,<br \/>\nj&rsquo;ai compris que je voulais vraiment parler \u00ab\u00a0d&rsquo;amour\u00a0\u00bb,<br \/>\ndu couple, de l&rsquo;oubli, des regrets, de ce temps \u00ab\u00a0qui passe<br \/>\nsous les ponts\u00a0\u00bb, comme l&rsquo;eau, comme le L\u00e9th\u00e9&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-answer yd-photo-plus-answer-en\" lang=\"en\">\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-lang\">EN<\/div>\n<p>I produced this series between May and October 2013 whilst<br \/>\ndescending the Garonne river in the South of France, between<br \/>\nthe cities of Bordeaux and Toulouse. At first I wanted to<br \/>\nexplore the idea of an odyssey, a <em>d\u00e9rive<\/em>, turmoil,<br \/>\ntests \u2026 Perhaps to conjure <em>Ulysees<\/em> (if you look<br \/>\nclosely you can even find a cyclops, some Lotus-eaters,<br \/>\nCirce, Calypso, mermaids, the cr\u00e9ation of Ithaca \u2026),<br \/>\nsomeone who is seeking to return home, or to find again<br \/>\nsomeone he once loved.<\/p>\n<p>Then bit by bit as I progressed with my project, I understood<br \/>\nthat what I really wanted to talk about was love: the couple,<br \/>\nloss, regrets, the time that \u2018flows under the bridge\u2019,<br \/>\nlike water, like the Lethe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><!-- QUESTION 02 --><\/p>\n<section class=\"yd-photo-plus-question\">\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-number\">02<\/div>\n<h2>How can you make a piece of work? I am curious about<br \/>\nthe whole process of your work.<\/h2>\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-answer\" lang=\"fr\">\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-lang\">FR<\/div>\n<p>J&rsquo;ai besoin de beaucoup de pr\u00e9paration avant me lancer dans<br \/>\nla prise de vue : rep\u00e9rages, recherches d&rsquo;objets,<br \/>\ndocumentations sur les th\u00e8mes que je vais traiter.<br \/>\nJe r\u00e9fl\u00e9chis assez longtemps \u00e0 l&rsquo;histoire que je veux raconter,<br \/>\nen r\u00e9alise plusieurs story-board, des sc\u00e9narios que je dessine<br \/>\nsur des petits cahiers qui me suivent partout le temps<br \/>\nd&rsquo;accoucher de ma s\u00e9rie. Bien s\u00fbr je me laisse de-ci de-l\u00e0<br \/>\nquelques libert\u00e9s mais en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral j&rsquo;ai en t\u00eate 80% des visuels<br \/>\nque je vais effectuer. Quand je me sens pr\u00eat, je r\u00e9unis mes<br \/>\nmod\u00e8les et tente de me rapprocher au plus pr\u00e8s de ce que j&rsquo;ai<br \/>\nsur ces petits cahiers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 cette m\u00e9thode, je peux mettre en place la progression<br \/>\nde mon histoire, anticiper l&rsquo;\u00e9volution de mes personnages,<br \/>\nje peux tisser le lien qui va \u00ab\u00a0unir\u00a0\u00bb toutes les images.<br \/>\nD&rsquo;un pur point de vue formel, cela me permet aussi d&rsquo;aiguiser<br \/>\nma r\u00e9flexion sur l&rsquo;image elle-m\u00eame : j&rsquo;exp\u00e9rimente des<br \/>\nassociations nouvelles, ou tente des cassures, je choisis,<br \/>\nje sais \u00e0 l&rsquo;avance si les images de mes polyptiques vont \u00eatre<br \/>\nprises dans un m\u00eame \u00ab\u00a0espace-temps\u00a0\u00bb (avec seulement quelques<br \/>\nsecondes de d\u00e9calage), ou si elles vont provenir d&rsquo;un m\u00eame<br \/>\nlieu mais avec des semaines, parfois des mois, d&rsquo;\u00e9carts<br \/>\nentre elles&#8230; Selon ce qu&rsquo;il y \u00e0 raconter, ces images<br \/>\npeuvent aussi na\u00eetre d&rsquo;un endroit et d&rsquo;une \u00e9poque<br \/>\ncompl\u00e8tement diff\u00e9rents : les combinaisons sont infinies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-answer yd-photo-plus-answer-en\" lang=\"en\">\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-lang\">EN<\/div>\n<p>I need a long period of preparation before it comes to<br \/>\nshooting: location hunting, research on objects, and<br \/>\nliterature on the themes that I wish to address. I think<br \/>\nabout the story I want to tell for quite some time by<br \/>\ncreating storyboards and scenes that I draw in little books<br \/>\nthat follow me all the time as I bring my series to life.<br \/>\nOf course I leave myself some freedom here and there but<br \/>\nin general I have 80% of the visuals in my head before<br \/>\nI create them. When I feel ready, I bring together my<br \/>\nmodels and I attempt to get as close to what I have in<br \/>\nthe little notebooks.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to this method, I can organize the development of<br \/>\nmy story, anticipate the evolution of my characters and<br \/>\nweave together the links that will \u201cunite\u201d all the images.<br \/>\nFrom a purely formal point of view this enables me to sharpen<br \/>\nmy reflections of the image itself: that is whether the images<br \/>\nfor my polyptychs will be shot in the same \u201cspace-time\u201d<br \/>\n(within a few seconds of each other) or if they originate<br \/>\nfrom the same place but are separated by weeks, sometimes<br \/>\nmonth-long gaps. Depending on what is to be told, these images<br \/>\nmay also be born from a completely different place and period:<br \/>\nthe combinations are infinite.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><!-- QUESTION 03 --><\/p>\n<section class=\"yd-photo-plus-question\">\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-number\">03<\/div>\n<h2>Who are the models? Are they professional models?<\/h2>\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-answer\" lang=\"fr\">\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-lang\">FR<\/div>\n<p>Pour cette s\u00e9rie, les mod\u00e8les sont des membres de ma famille.<br \/>\nP\u00e8re, m\u00e8re, s\u0153ur, ni\u00e8ce&#8230; Pour d&rsquo;autres projets, je peux<br \/>\ntravailler avec des professionnels mais je n&rsquo;en retire pas<br \/>\nautant de \u00ab\u00a0substances\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-answer yd-photo-plus-answer-en\" lang=\"en\">\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-lang\">EN<\/div>\n<p>For that series, the models are members of my family:<br \/>\nmy father, my mother, my sister, my niece. For other projects<br \/>\nI might work with professionals but I find it\u2019s rarely<br \/>\npossible to draw out as much \u2018substance\u2019 from them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><!-- QUESTION 04 --><\/p>\n<section class=\"yd-photo-plus-question\">\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-number\">04<\/div>\n<h2>One piece of work consists of two, three or four images<br \/>\nfrom different angles. Can you explain the reason why<br \/>\nyou work like that?<\/h2>\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-answer\" lang=\"fr\">\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-lang\">FR<\/div>\n<p>Pour deux raisons essentiellement: La premi\u00e8re est que<br \/>\nje ne sais pas faire autrement! Ma personnalit\u00e9, mon<br \/>\n\u00e9ducation \u00e0 l&rsquo;image, la fa\u00e7on dont mon corps, malgr\u00e9 moi,<br \/>\ntente d\u2019exorciser une certaine panique du vide, du silence,<br \/>\ndu manque, m\u2019ont conduit tr\u00e8s vite \u00e0 proc\u00e9der de la sorte.<br \/>\nJe n\u2019ai jamais vraiment r\u00e9ussi \u00e0 me tenir \u00e0 une unicit\u00e9,<br \/>\n\u00e0 tout mettre dans une seule et m\u00eame image comme pour ce<br \/>\nfameux <em>instant d\u00e9cisif<\/em>. J\u2019ai cette n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 de<br \/>\ncollecter du fragment, le fragment : \u00ab un morceau de chose<br \/>\nqui a \u00e9t\u00e9 cass\u00e9, s\u00e9par\u00e9 de son tout \u00bb. Comment retrouver<br \/>\nce \u00ab tout \u00bb ? Une seule d\u00e9coupe ? Une seule empreinte du<br \/>\nr\u00e9el ? Une seule image suffit-elle vraiment ? Peut-\u00eatre pas.<\/p>\n<p>La seconde raison est que j\u2019aime rationnaliser, et pour cela<br \/>\nil faut trouver de la mati\u00e8re tout autour de soi, puis la<br \/>\nclasser, l\u2019ordonner, la nommer, sur le principe de l\u2019herbier,<br \/>\nje cherche \u00e0 contrarier le d\u00e9sordre, je me dis que mettre<br \/>\nplusieurs indices \u00ab\u00a0\u00e0 plat\u00a0\u00bb, sur une table, m&rsquo;aidera peut-\u00eatre<br \/>\n\u00e0 mieux comprendre et r\u00e9soudre l&rsquo;\u00e9nigme&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-answer yd-photo-plus-answer-en\" lang=\"en\">\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-lang\">EN<\/div>\n<p>For two reasons essentially. The first is that I don\u2019t know<br \/>\nany other way to work! My personality, my education with<br \/>\nregards to the image, the way in which my body (in spite<br \/>\nof itself) attempts to exorcise a type of panic of emptiness,<br \/>\nbecause of silence, absence, all these things very quickly<br \/>\ndrove me proceed in this way. I never really managed to<br \/>\nconstrain myself to \u2018uniqueness\u2019, to putting everything<br \/>\nin one image alone as with the famous<br \/>\n<em>decisive moment.<\/em> I have that necessity to collect<br \/>\nfragments \u2026 <em>the<\/em> fragment, \u201ca pi\u00e8ce of something<br \/>\nthat has been broken, separated from everything\u201d.<br \/>\nHow can this \u2018whole\u2019 be found? A single shot? A solitary<br \/>\nimprint of the real? Is one image really enough?<br \/>\nPerhaps not.<\/p>\n<p>The second reason is that I like to rationalize and for that<br \/>\nyou have to locate the matter all around yourself, then to<br \/>\nclassify it, order it, and name it according to the principal<br \/>\nof a herbarium. I seek to go against the disorder. I say to<br \/>\nmyself that several clues \u2018laid out\u2019 on a table will perhaps<br \/>\nhelp me to better understand and resolve the enigma \u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><!-- QUESTION 05 --><\/p>\n<section class=\"yd-photo-plus-question\">\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-number\">05<\/div>\n<h2>What is the most important thing when you take a photograph?<\/h2>\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-answer\" lang=\"fr\">\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-lang\">FR<\/div>\n<p>Ma fa\u00e7on de concevoir la photographie n&rsquo;est finalement<br \/>\npas tr\u00e8s photographique&#8230;. Comme je proc\u00e8de par associations<br \/>\nd&rsquo;images et non pas par image unique, comme je bondis de s\u00e9rie<br \/>\nen s\u00e9rie sans me soucier de faire \u00ab\u00a0une belle image\u00a0\u00bb, du coup<br \/>\nla prise de vue n&rsquo;est pas une chose essentielle pour moi,<br \/>\nje me sens tr\u00e8s \u00e9loign\u00e9 du concept d&rsquo;<em>instant d\u00e9cisif<\/em>,<br \/>\net il est clair que ma famille est plus celle des plasticiens.<br \/>\nA chaque fois, je cherche \u00e0 retranscrire un \u00ab\u00a0univers\u00a0\u00bb complet,<br \/>\nune \u00ab\u00a0continuit\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb, un <em>corpus<\/em> d&rsquo;images dans lequel<br \/>\ntout est \u00ab\u00a0li\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb, et puis : j&rsquo;ai tellement pr\u00e9par\u00e9 mon affaire<br \/>\navant d&rsquo;appuyer sur le d\u00e9clencheur que ce moment l\u00e0 n&rsquo;a rien<br \/>\nde \u00ab\u00a0sacr\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb pour moi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-answer yd-photo-plus-answer-en\" lang=\"en\">\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-lang\">EN<\/div>\n<p>My way of conceiving of photography is ultimately not very<br \/>\nphotographic. Because I proceed through associations of<br \/>\nimages and not by a unique image, because I jump from one<br \/>\nseries to another without worrying about creating \u201ca beautiful<br \/>\nimage\u201d, the shooting is not something essential for me.<br \/>\nI feel very removed from the concept of the<br \/>\n<em>decisive moment<\/em> and without doubt my family is that<br \/>\nof the plasticians. I always seek to transcribe a complete<br \/>\n\u201cuniverse\u201d a \u201ccontinuity\u201d, a corpus of images in which<br \/>\neverything is \u201clinked\u201d, and then I\u2019ve prepared my venture<br \/>\nso much prior to releasing the shutter that there is nothing<br \/>\nparticularly \u201csacred\u201d in that moment for me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><!-- QUESTION 06 --><\/p>\n<section class=\"yd-photo-plus-question\">\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-number\">06<\/div>\n<h2>Do you have any artists or things that inspire you?<\/h2>\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-answer\" lang=\"fr\">\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-lang\">FR<\/div>\n<p>Bien s\u00fbr, je ne peux cach\u00e9 mon amour de la peinture :<br \/>\nManet, l&rsquo;\u00e9cole viennoise, les nabis, Rembrandt, Goya&#8230;<br \/>\nj&rsquo;ai d\u00e9but\u00e9 mon parcours artistique comme peintre et beaucoup<br \/>\nde choses en sont rest\u00e9es.<\/p>\n<p>Photographiquement parlant, m\u00eame s&rsquo;il y a \u00e9norm\u00e9ment<br \/>\nd&rsquo;auteurs dont j&rsquo;admire le travail (Rineke Dijkstra en t\u00eate),<br \/>\nje ne peux pas vraiment dire qu&rsquo;un univers photographique<br \/>\nen particuliers influence directement ma d\u00e9marche.<br \/>\nEn fait, je me sens beaucoup plus proche du cin\u00e9ma,<br \/>\nj&rsquo;y trouve des couleurs, des atmosph\u00e8res, et surtout<br \/>\ndes transitions d&rsquo;images et des s\u00e9quen\u00e7ages qui me fascinent;<br \/>\n\u00e0 ce titre des gens comme Jeff Nichols, Jim Jarmusch,<br \/>\net bien s\u00fbr Chris Marker et ses photos-Romans,<br \/>\nsont des r\u00e9f\u00e9rences pour moi.<\/p>\n<p>Enfin, si je devais mettre de la musique sur mes images,<br \/>\nvraisemblablement les pianistes Erik Satie et Chilly Gonzales<br \/>\nseraient en t\u00eate de liste : comme ils accompagnent tous mes<br \/>\nprojets depuis des ann\u00e9es, j&rsquo;ai l&rsquo;impression de leur devoir<br \/>\nbeaucoup.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-answer yd-photo-plus-answer-en\" lang=\"en\">\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-lang\">EN<\/div>\n<p>Of course, I can\u2019t hide my love for painting: Manet,<br \/>\nthe Vienna school, Les Nabis, Rembrandt, Goya&#8230;<br \/>\nI started my artistic journey as a painter and I\u2019ve retained<br \/>\na great deal from this.<\/p>\n<p>Even if there are lots of auteurs whose work I admire in<br \/>\nterms of photogtraphy, (Rineke Dijkstra comes to mind)<br \/>\nI can\u2019t really say that a particular photographic universe<br \/>\ninfluences my approach. In fact, I feel much closer to the<br \/>\ncinema. I find in it colors, atmospheres, and especially<br \/>\ntransitions of images and sequences that fascinate me.<br \/>\nTo this end people like Jeff Nicholls, Jim Jarmusch and<br \/>\nof course Chris Marker and his <em>photo-romans<\/em><br \/>\nare references for me.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, if I had to put music over my images in all<br \/>\nlikelihood the pianists Erik Satie and Chilly Gonzales<br \/>\nwould be at the top of my list. I feel that I owe them<br \/>\na lot because they have accompanied all my projects<br \/>\nfor many years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><!-- QUESTION 07 --><\/p>\n<section class=\"yd-photo-plus-question\">\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-number\">07<\/div>\n<h2>What do you want people to get from your photographs?<\/h2>\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-answer\" lang=\"fr\">\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-lang\">FR<\/div>\n<p>J&rsquo;aimerais, comme pour un bon film, que la premi\u00e8re vision<br \/>\nde ma s\u00e9rie laisse une impression tenace, qu&rsquo;elle reste l\u00e0,<br \/>\nplusieurs jours, infuse en-dedans. Puis, qu&rsquo;on ait envie<br \/>\nd&rsquo;y revenir un peu plus tard, et qu&rsquo;\u00e0 ce moment-l\u00e0,<br \/>\non y d\u00e9couvre de nouvelles choses, des d\u00e9tails que je cache<br \/>\ndans les recoins, et qu&rsquo;ainsi d&rsquo;autres histoires puissent<br \/>\ncommencer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-answer yd-photo-plus-answer-en\" lang=\"en\">\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-lang\">EN<\/div>\n<p>I would like the first viewing of my series to leave<br \/>\na lingering impression that endures for several days,<br \/>\npercolating inside the viewer like after watching a good film.<br \/>\nThen I hope that it leaves them with the desire to return<br \/>\nto it a little later and that at that moment they discover<br \/>\nsomething new, details hidden in the recesses, which enable<br \/>\nnew stories to flow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><!-- QUESTION 08 --><\/p>\n<section class=\"yd-photo-plus-question\">\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-number\">08<\/div>\n<h2>What are you working on now and what are you planning<br \/>\nto work on in the future?<\/h2>\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-answer\" lang=\"fr\">\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-lang\">FR<\/div>\n<p>A l&rsquo;heure d&rsquo;aujourd&rsquo;hui, j&rsquo;essaye de faire exposer mon<br \/>\n\u00ab\u00a0L\u00e9th\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb le long des \u00e9cluses du canal-st-Martin \u00e0 Paris.<\/p>\n<p>Pour mon prochain projet, je me lance un d\u00e9fi. Un d\u00e9fi humain<br \/>\net esth\u00e9tique. Je vais partir 4 mois en Scandinavie, dormir<br \/>\ndehors presque tous les soirs, partir \u00e0 l&rsquo;aventure,<br \/>\nrencontrer des gens et me perdre dans le sauvage jusqu&rsquo;au<br \/>\nCap Nord (le point le plus septentrional d&rsquo;Europe).<br \/>\nJe parle de d\u00e9fi esth\u00e9tique parce que ma fa\u00e7on de fabriquer<br \/>\nde l&rsquo;image est tout sauf \u00ab\u00a0spontan\u00e9e\u00a0\u00bb, et l\u00e0-bas je n&rsquo;aurais<br \/>\npas de mod\u00e8les connus, pas de sc\u00e9narios pr\u00e9par\u00e9s, il faudra<br \/>\nappliquer mon vocabulaire aux al\u00e9as du style documentaire<br \/>\net je ne sais pas ce que cela va donner&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-answer yd-photo-plus-answer-en\" lang=\"en\">\n<div class=\"yd-photo-plus-lang\">EN<\/div>\n<p>At this very moment I\u2019m trying to get my \u2018L\u00e9th\u00e9\u2019 exhibited<br \/>\nalong the tide gates of the Canal St. Martin in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>For my next project, I have given myself a challenge both<br \/>\nhuman and aesthetic. I\u2019m going to Scandinavia for four<br \/>\nmonths. I will be sleeping outside most nights, departing<br \/>\non an adventure, meeting people and losing myself in the<br \/>\nwild until I reach the North cape (the northern most point<br \/>\nin Europe). I describe it as a challenge because my approach<br \/>\nto creating images is everything but \u2018spontaneous\u2019,<br \/>\nand I won\u2019t have any known models there, no prepared<br \/>\nscenarios. I will have to apply my vocabulary to the chance<br \/>\nof the documentary style and I don\u2019t know what the outcome<br \/>\nwill be \u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHOTO+ \u00b7 48e num\u00e9ro \u00b7 2014 Interview with Yann Datessen 01 I am impressed with your work &lt;L\u00e9th\u00e9&gt;, When did you start to shoot it? And what made you start to do this series? FR J&rsquo;ai r\u00e9alis\u00e9 cette s\u00e9rie entre Mai et Octobre 2013, en descendant le fleuve de la Garonne dans le sud de [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9526","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yanndatessen.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yanndatessen.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yanndatessen.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yanndatessen.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yanndatessen.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9526"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/yanndatessen.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9532,"href":"https:\/\/yanndatessen.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9526\/revisions\/9532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yanndatessen.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}