Photo series - Cécile Briand

Collections of images

A view from my window

The first 4 images are Polaroids taken from my bedroom window when I was still living at my parents’ place, in an area of Rennes. I can’t remember the dates (I can’t believe I was patient enough to wait the passing of the 4 seasons).

I didn’t remember this first series before tidying all my work at the end of 2017.

The view I had from the 6^th floor of Piat Street in Paris was beautiful. I don’t think I will be able to find such a nice one in my future apartments. I couldn’t do anything but photographing the sky above the roofs.

In the flat where I now live, I keep on photographing the celestial sceneries from my windows.

Are the skies of the seaside more beautiful? Can you die from it ?

Writing with the moon

I managed to draw an almost square, and almost circle and an almost Cécile. I could have kept on training but doing so, by only using end of photographic films, I would have had to keep on doing silver photography.

How to read without carrying the book ?

I wanted to create an object to read in bed without having to carry the book (so heavy sometimes). I didn’t go far into my form research. Later, when the idea came back to my mind, I found many models on internet! This collection made me laugh a lot. I bought a pack of glasses as a Christmas present for my sister : it’s such an ingenious product! I don’t think she uses them more than I do (that is to say never, even if it works).

The shapes appearing in the typographic empty spaces

I could have added the images of the mistakes found in the book pages, that is to say, the spelling mistakes or the printing mistakes. But I will only concentrate and content myself with the shapes that appear between those lines. That is the beginning of a new collection. Feel free to contribute.