A little later, in a Parisian book box, a small book. I know the title well, the author too, and yet I have never read it. But now it’s calling out to me. The format is unusual, I like the yellowed paper of a book that has lived and travelled. I leaf through it slowly …
Author archives: Camille Poumeau De Lafforest
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As always, it’s always easier for me to do things when I’m not asked. Writing is often a game for me, a pleasure, and yet this time I found it difficult. Where to start, what to tell?It started like this… Night falls, and in Paris, on a majestic building, large letters light up. “What is …
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After my visual essay and the exploration of telling story from found materials came summer, along with some great encounter. First this book that disturbed me. If on a winter’s night a traveler for Italo Calvino. A story that addresses you, the reader, who gradually becomes one of the characters in the story, which is …
The Lost Tree — Visual essay
You’ll find here my visual essay, exploring what I did for the beginning of Unit 2 as well as the way I work, collecting daily, bits of everything. (https://youtu.be/tXpGck4JfhY)
Transadeuche
In 1989, a group a friends —including my parents— made a trip from Paris to Timbuktu in 2CV. I have a lots of archive documents from that trip such as images, travel journals of different persons but also a text about the genesis of that trip. I am very much interested in my work to …
W3
W2
Iterate (w1)
Trying to dissect what I was able to do for this first step of Unit 2 wouldn’t be very interesting, given that just for once, I did my best to work instinctively, without trying too hard to know where it would lead me (following the instructions of the task we were meant to be doing).However, …
The Hundred
Home ? (elaborate etc)
Everything started with a collection of images that turned into a typology of homes, using illustration to put them on an equal footing. Then came experiments like recontextualization, construction and deconstruction. Later, I asked myself questions that helped me through my research process. What would our houses look like if we could see the mixture …