PHOTOGRAPHER: JACQUES OLIVAR

Of course, there was Gelsomina de la Strada de Fellini and Monica de Bergman as well. There is the young heroine from Andersen’s fairy tales and her matches that end up going out and then the stranded children in Dickens’ stories. Anyhow, all this harsh poetry about lost childhood. All these lost dogs without collars, all the long and perilous roads of a distressed adolescence. The beauty in the looks. The stolen liberty from the cold stiffness of adulthood. The beauty of the vast lands that seem to stretch endlessly and which are the most beautiful country of the world, without “no entry” signs or parking meters. This is what I’ve always photographed and even though it isn’t what we first notice, sometimes we simply have to raise the light veil from our eyes.

47”x38” inches, Edition of 10