A hermetic guardian watches over the marshes
His emerald-green eyes have pierced the mystery
The mirages of the world are absurd secrets
That men interrogate to fill a desert
Original text by Marco hukenzie
In the Baie de Somme, everything is graphic, compositional, material, instant color.
Sun, wind and rain decide the hue of sand and water: stone gray, topaz, jade, lactescent... A magical slate, the tide creates works of art, then erases them to create new ones.
Marc Chesneau's photos invite us to play a child's game similar to that which gives shape and life to clouds. From the sky, we contemplate a land and sea with strange or familiar graphics, but always delightful and constantly renewed.
Never has the photographer's desire to freeze the ephemeral in order to keep a trace of it been more justified than in the Baie de Somme.