2_1: WANDERING THE SEAS - HOMO SAPIENS Actually this is just a tilt-shift shot with the Sagem lenses that came out well. Rationale invented afterwards: the image illustrates the smallness of a human, advancing by sole muscular power through the sea. A few artificial appendages: a hull, a paddle, some clothes; the same since tens of thousands of years. That’s how we got to Great Britain, Indonesia or Australia, when we weren’t much more than packs of curious monkeys. Are we so different today? Subject: Homo sapiens paddling with a canoe over a huge amount of water. Lens Sagem 569937 350mm at f/3.5, long distance. Theme 2: ONE SPECIFIC ANIMAL When thinking about nature, we picture something outside, separated from the human, artificial world made of roads, houses and cities. However we ourselves, as humans, are already inside nature, a part of it. Often artificial and natural are seen as opposite; but we are too the fruit of evolution; in our technological creations, natural materials - wood, leather, chemicals - have been and still are essentials. Our cities very well resemble very large termite nests, and we still rely critically, for the survival of the modern society, on our animal powers - reproduction, metabolism, thinking, immunity, hand-eye coordination. This series of images wish to provide technological inspiration to, and from, one specific animal: Homo sapiens. The initial plan was to take photos of technological creations - planes, ships, cranes, engines - together with their biological analogs, like seagulls, ducks, trees, inner organs; but the task revealed daunting, and seagulls really don’t want to align correctly (and dangerously) with a taking off plane. I reverted to the simpler, direct depiction of the source and maker of all artificial creations - our own human body, adult phenotype unit, between the many emerged from some billions years of evolution.