Philippe PERRIN is a French photographer drawn by mysterious scenery. In front of the immensity and strangeness of the landscape, man is alone: a minute silhouette in the middle of gigantic mountains or endless plains.
In the midst of an awe-inspiring environment, Philippe PERRIN’s photography is strongly charged with emotion. The Man Alone – inside a context, which is not his own, in an almost lunar space – is the majestic human being at the center of our perception.
Commenting on PERRIN’s photography, Daniel SIRDEY said, “Right away a revelation, minutely, precisely, skillfully developed in the darkroom, Philippe refines it, asserts it, reiterates his evidence and fixes it with all his weight and strength. Looking at his images we have the feeling that they arose from the deepest parts of ourselves…. All could be the theatre of one of our dreams because they come from that place.”
Claudia ISLA (translated from the French)

Rémi Guerrin uses a homemade Pin Hole which is a wooden box fit with a 4 ´ 5 inch frame that allows shots with or without a lense (removing a magnet used as a shutter to let light enter, as in the early days of photography manual shutters were used) in the same way as others use a classic chambre.
Contrary to some nostalgic approaches, Guerrin is rooted firmly in his time, with a solid grip on this most prosaic reality: fully conscious of the anthropological importance of their work, Guerrin as heir of the american documentarists welcomes and integrates inside his picture signals and manufactured objects that others will judge as parasitic (rusty metal pillars, electric wires, cars.). Also, he often positions the sténopé on the ground to regain a more childlike than adult perspective and more links with the initial energy of the earth. A former student of Sudre, he is also a specialist of cyanotype, and coal print techniques which give his miniature pictures a mildly intemporal dimension.
Yannick Vigouroux