Presentation
Barbara THOLLOT
France
Photographs
9 years ago I changed my life to devote myself to my passion for photography. I leave everything to go and live alone in a mountain chalet. There I know, my inspiration will be able to work. I feel like I’m in a Jack London novel, and I love it. I need nothing since I already have everything: the harmony and happiness of getting up every morning in nature and the mountains to do a job that I love. I enjoy the peace and lonelyness. I then created a series of images “evaporated daydreams” which is the reflection of my soul at that time: Lightness and freedom. Since then, my life has evolved further, since I am no longer alone in my chalet. We are 4 now, including 2 little blondes who occupy my days. My loneliness is no longer, love and poetry are much more present in my daily life. After 4 years devoted to my daughters, I am taking back my passion job that I missed so much. Living from photography and for photography, an inner call, a vocation.
Exposition
When I go to for hikking mountains, my ultimate goal is to experience moments of magic and poetry. Moments out of time, where everything stops, oxygen’s bubbles. To take a fragment of poetry with me through my camera is to feel like the crystal maker who brings back with him a particle of treasure that the mountain has to offer him. Where else but here, do we manage in our hectic lives to make room for daydreams and allow ourselves nothings, without immediately feeling guilty for idleness? A wind of spirituality blows under my steaming bonnet. From this apparent void can emerge clarification and inspiration. It is often when I return from mountain outings that I find snippets of answers to all these questions that occupy my life.
Galerie
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- Ombre chinoise – Barbara Thollot Rhumel
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- En bonne compagnie – Barbara Thollot Rhumel
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- Vague à l’âme – Barbara Thollot Rhumel
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- Sa Majesté la Verte – Barbara Thollot Rhumel
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- Douce nuit – Barbara Thollot Rhumel
Books
Plateau de Cenise
Publisher : Le Monde
Rêveries evaporées
Publisher : Nat'images n°76