HOME, or the questioning of the relationship to childhood memories.
Memories of childhood are undeniably linked to our origins. Our education, the family scheme according to which we grew up. What builds our own identity.
In this documentary series, it was directly discussed for the photographer to place himself in the first person, and in a first step of questioning his own identity, by returning to the places that built it.
"Born in Toulouse in 2001 from a Father stonemason and a childcare auxiliary mother, I spent most of my holidays at my grandparents farm. On my maternal side, all the members of my family are farmers, sinter, hunters. I spent the vast majority of my childhood there, with my cousins.
Nevertheless, I have much fewer memories of my paternal grandparents. I remember going fishing with my grandfather. Not much else.
I grew up outside in some ways. Shortly after I was twenty, I needed to photograph this. All these places where I grew up. They didn't change, they remained the same. We still feel the weight of time on the shelves, which have filled with dust and more useless things, guarded by my grandfather. In case. The table set for meals, with the same dishes for 20 years.
I needed to freeze time, before everything changed too much. ”
For this documentary series, most of the photos were taken in medium silver format, in 6X6 Yashicamat and Kodak 400Tx format. The rest of the photos were made in 24X36 silver with an Ilford HP5.
The choice of the Photographic Medium is part of a desire to slow down the shooting process, as if it were going to make it possible to dive back into memories. It is also a question of a desire for authenticity of the photos, of the physical relationship that silver brings through the development process. But also to be able to feel the photo in all its forms. From negative to draft under magnifiers.
FARRET Arthur
