Cameleon caravans, le voyage immobile
In the south of France, in the Camargue area, a population of local anchorage, descendants of the first seaside resorts of the 1950s and the first paid holidays, perpetuate a sort of profane ritual, a modern tradition, that is not aristocratic nor bourgeois, but eminently popular. Driven by a specific desire for the seashore, this population, in a seasonal nomadic experience, makes this collective dream a reality.
A place of the imaginary, of myths and childhood, the seaside is propitious to experimentation. The temporary occupation of this strange and familiar space that is no longer quite the land, nor quite yet the sea, excites both imagination and creativity, is a constant invitation to travel.
Before the sea, no longer quite the same.
The caravan represents a social experience that offers a deliverence from everyday life, a model of humanity founded on the power of the weak, a space of freedom in which a form of original social organization sees the light of day. This strategy of making do, the desire to organize one’s small personal space, materially and spiritually, is the result of a passion for nature and freedom, and contributes to the sense of community.
Like a sandcastle eroded by time and the elements, a shell who’s inhabitants come and go, the caravan placed seemingly randomly on the fringes of the world, is little by little transformed, a surface overtaken by nature.
Melting between sand and sea, becoming landscape.
This series taken between 2000 and 2002 is the memory of something that has now disappeared. In 2016 the french coastal law completely banned camping authorized so far in this very special place.
COMING SOON
Cameleon caravans, le voyage immobile
In the south of France, in the Camargue area, a population of local anchorage, descendants of the first seaside resorts of the 1950s and the first paid holidays, perpetuate a sort of profane ritual, a modern tradition, that is not aristocratic nor bourgeois, but eminently popular. Driven by a specific desire for the seashore, this population, in a seasonal nomadic experience, makes this collective dream a reality.
A place of the imaginary, of myths and childhood, the seaside is propitious to experimentation. The temporary occupation of this strange and familiar space that is no longer quite the land, nor quite yet the sea, excites both imagination and creativity, is a constant invitation to travel.
Before the sea, no longer quite the same.
The caravan represents a social experience that offers a deliverence from everyday life, a model of humanity founded on the power of the weak, a space of freedom in which a form of original social organization sees the light of day. This strategy of making do, the desire to organize one’s small personal space, materially and spiritually, is the result of a passion for nature and freedom, and contributes to the sense of community.
Like a sandcastle eroded by time and the elements, a shell who’s inhabitants come and go, the caravan placed seemingly randomly on the fringes of the world, is little by little transformed, a surface overtaken by nature.
Melting between sand and sea, becoming landscape.
This series taken between 2000 and 2002 is the memory of something that has now disappeared. In 2016 the french coastal law completely banned camping authorized so far in this very special place.
COMING SOON