Montier Photo Festival

Presentation

Montier Photo Festival

Fabrice MILOCHAU

  France

  http://www.fabrice-milochau.eu

  Photographs

  

At the age of 30, Fabrice Milochau decided to turn his attention to nature, becoming a general environmental technician, before quickly turning to journalism, working for the magazines Science & Nature and Animaux Sauvages. There, he became convinced that the aesthetics and beauty of landscapes are more effective than long speeches in defending and respecting nature. A long-time enthusiast of photography, in 1998 he embarked on a career as a freelance photographer: the forest of Fontainebleau was to be his first major subject published in Geo magazine and the subject of his first book. Today, he is a specialist in landscape photography, the author of some twenty books on natural heritage and photographic technique, and he works in his own way for the preservation of the environment, through the eye and the sense of wonder. Fabrice Milochau is recognized as one of the finest landscape photographers of his generation, and has been published in leading magazines. Author of Planète France, in collaboration with GEO, he campaigns for landscape diversity and the enhancement of “wild” French landscapes, particularly forests… Since 2010, Fabrice Milochau has also been exploring a new avenue, that of contemporary art. He uses his personal photo backgrounds to turn them into something else, a work that reflects on the meaning of images and reality.

Exposition

 

Our ancient forests and the sylves of our childhood are being nibbled away, purified or simply eradicated in a constant quest for profitability. Yet the imaginary, the sacred and the legendary are concepts intimately linked to natural forests, both marvellous and disquieting, and are our strongest links with Nature as we know it. At a time when our modern forests are becoming increasingly uniform, and fields of resinous trees are expanding, these oases of chlorophyll show us that other paths are possible. These special forests of France are becoming not only aesthetic curiosities, but also increasingly endangered relics of a forest biodiversity that we are gradually losing the habit and meaning of. As the next short-term victims of global warming, they represent a natural heritage that urgently needs to be preserved, and which our children may no longer know. The forests I photographed throughout France in 2021 for this particular project are often forgotten, increasingly rare and exceptional, because they still possess all the codes of the marvellous, the wild and the enchanted. These fabulous forests also allow us to reconnect with the animistic spiritual capital that our ancestors have developed since the Celts… A return to the enchanted forests that still exist !

Books

Montier Photo Festival

Forêts enchantées de France

  Author : Fabrice Milochau

  Publisher : GEO

prodigieuse planete France

prodigieuse planete France

  Author : fabrice milochau - frederique roger

  Publisher : heredium

les secrets de la photo de paysage

les secrets de la photo de paysage

  Author : fabrice milochau

  Publisher : Eyrolles