offers a panorama of photographs by Stéphane Charpentier in black and white film, captured over a decade in Greece, a country reflecting a world plunged into economic, political and human crises. But more than a documentary or an intimate essay,

reveals different levels of reading and meaning. The book combines poetic images of a suffering humanity, with an iconography that is both symbolic and dreamlike, almost metaphysical. Interludes composed of mosaics of rephotographed prints evoke this contemporary density and chaos, while the last sequence of images opens onto natural spaces, virgin and dazzling, from which all the light finally emerges.

The texts in English and French are transcriptions of recorded dialogues and form a background sound to this present torn between struggle and hope.

Stéphane Charpentier carries out poetic existential photographic work in B&W film. He weaves a long-term work, broadcast for nearly twenty years in France and internationally. He is represented by the Galerie Françoise Besson in Lyon. He also makes experimental films and is the curator of the Temps Zero collective projects (image and sound).

His photography, dark and luminous, raw and stripped of any artifice of seduction, confronts us with the dualities of human relationships as well as our own dualities. A photographer on the skin and on the surface of the world, Stéphane Charpentier produces work in black that brings out and exalts incandescent light.