Vacances
Retrouvées

This series is both homage and reinvention. It asks: What remains when identity is erased? What lingers when memory’s keepers are gone? The work navigates the ethics of anonymity, removing identifiable features to preserve the emotional residue—gestures, landscapes, and a sense of occasion that transcend individual biography.

In reclaiming these orphaned photographs, I engage with inherited nostalgia: the longing for a past that is not my own, yet feels strangely familiar. The viewer is invited to inhabit the space between fact and fiction, memory and imagination, projecting their own stories onto these transformed images.

Ultimately, “Vacances Retrouvées” is a meditation on the afterlife of images—how meaning endures even as names and faces fade, and how art can transform loss into a new kind of presence. The series invites reflection on what is lost when memory disperses, and what is found: new connections, new narratives, and the enduring power of shared experience.