Ghost #19 (2020) Photography by Pierre Duquoc

For a photographer it is often paradoxical to accept and even more to ensure that his photos are blurred. In the “Ghosts” series, I chose to work on the theme of disappearances. Not the most painful, such as the loss of a loved one, but rather those that I would call the small disappearances of everyday life. The moments that our brain captures, stores in our memory, to then be able to transform them as it pleases, in what we call our memories. I felt that the movements of artists, musicians, dancers, singers, circus artists and others are particularly conducive to this little game. They fade away little by little behind their instruments, their performances, in favor of the traces they will leave in our memory, and the memories that our unconscious will produce. At the end of the show, their small disappearance helps us to populate, to haunt our minds. The game does not stop at the stage of the show, but sometimes also takes place during other fleeting moments of everyday life. I pushed the paradox even further by not making blurry shots from the start, but, as our unconscious would have done, by recreating the blur from clear shots.

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