Capturing a person (clothes, environment, social codes) is not the aim, capturing a human being is. The nude is the path to something more primitive, more deep, more simple. In these photographs nudity is part of a preparatory process: it takes away the reality of the person, reducing the model (person) to his essence (human being) and allowing the photographer to create something new, something altogether different. For the model (now a human being) to exist, he must be placed in a new reality system with different rules. He becomes a performer using his body as material.
The function of black and white is to “undo” the last bits of the person’s and the environment’s reality. The elimination of color allows the new reality to be seen.
Subject to the installation, the model appears lost and out of his depth. He is now part of a narrative over which he has no control, neither of the action nor its meaning. He wanders in a space that either swallows him up or rejects him, being sentenced to indefinite transformations in search of the a place into which he knows he will not fit.
Unaware of the location, the elements, the length of and the idea behind the shoot, the model is destabilized and rendered fragile, imperfect. He is imprisoned in the present by the photographic lens and has no other choice except to exist in simplicity.