Bertrand Gruyer
Photographs

The act of seeing

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My gaze is drawn to forms that emerge without intention, the results of random effects encountered in everyday life. They strike me with their expressive potential. ​

 

I seek images that exist for their own sake. My shots are never altered; the precision of the framing creates the image. When the subject ceases to be the subject, reality becomes language. ​

 

I am not looking for a motif, but for a pictorial force. It is the act of seeing that is at play: the way our gaze reinvents what it sees, and the shift of attention toward things we might otherwise overlook.

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The subjects I photograph give rise to worlds of feeling that stand worlds apart from one another. My gaze adapts to each visual vocabulary, just as water takes the shape of its container. ​

 

I focus on what I see for the first time, things that have no counterpart elsewhere. My series are almost always created in a single location.

 

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