Michel Sedan
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Born in Marseille in 1962, Michel Sedan was immersed from an early age in the photographic world of his grand- and godfathers, both talented image makers and passionate travelers. He soon came to realize that his future would not be at on a university bench. The freedom given by photography would become his mantra. Fruitful encounters with photographers such as Marcel Coen, Federico Cimatti and Denis Jobron reinforced his aspiration to become a professional photographer. They taught him all aspects of photography: composition, studio lighting, the alchemy of the black and white process. His first client, the Musée de la Mode de Marseille comissionned him to photograph the work of the designer Madeleine Vionnet. But it was during his travels to the USA, Australia and Brazil that he found his true calling: the pleasure of being outside and of playing with natural light. It was after his move to Paris that his activity expanded to advertisement campaigns, fashion series for the glossies and portraits for international magazines. Along the way he kept developing his personal work around intimate moments, which took him from projects like "Busca Vida" to "contre-nature"...from portraits to remains. Although the digital medium was now part of his everyday life, he is very attached to the traditional silver halide process which in his eyes keeps all its mystery. As a recurrent theme, water often infiltrates his personal work like a desire or need for freedom. Infatuated with the woman's body, he associates with nature and with the aquatic depths. Over the years he developped his own mythology, from Délos to the calanques of Sormiou,thus going back to his roots. The outcome of this visual quest became the photographic world of "Naïades Néréides". |
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