Dust

• Prize
  Silver in Portfolio/Fine Art
• Photographer
  Laetitia De La Villehuchet

I wander on an imaginary planet made of rocks, water and ice, whose power brings us back to our condition. "You will return to Earth, because born from dust, you will become dust again". These places go beyond the landscapes traveled. They are deafeningly silent, vulnerable power. They have been, are and will remain whereas our existence is fragile and ephemeral. There is in front of me only the universe: space, time which seems infinite to me and matter. These bits of earth transport me to an Elsewhere which transcends me and which asks Pascal's question "What is a Man in the Infinite ?"

I live with photography since my childhood. My work is turned towards Nature where we are invited to introspection, where "our" infinitesimally small is confronted with the infinitely big of Nature which reminds us the finiteness of Human Being. I try to relay the way I approach life, a certain humbleness facing this infinitely big with a feeling of kindness and gentleness. Nature invites us to look at her, to contemplate, in a charitable & satisfactory timelessness. Life can also be read as a poem.