╳ Describing his work Blottiere says: “I’ve always been interested in images. I started to play with a camera when I was very young. I was fascinated by my father’s little analogue camera which seemed so complicate to use to me at that time. Later, I started to buy fashion magazines as well as, secretly, vintage porn publications (the best way I found then to look at bodies). I was looking at them for hours. Years after, I had the chance to meet talented photographers. Looking at them working I started thinking: “this is what I really want to do!¨ But I don’t really consider myself as a photographer. I feel I make images by hands more than taking pictures.”
╳ Blottiere studied Fashion at the Parisian Art School Duperre and was always interested in images and photography, after graduating he worked as Fashion Editor for Mixte, Purple Fashion and Dazed&Confused until he decided to devote himself entirely to photography. Playing with images, he creates a universe for the models or the objects, by building handmade sets or collages that look like flowers or surrealistic sculptures: all open windows to his childhood and own world of magical fantasy. ╳ Recounting his working method, Blottiere explains: “I follow the skin, the clothes, the bones, the muscles, the shape of the face and body parts, all the silhouette aspects. I need to be alone and let my hands start to do their work. I try to translate or sum up what the subject told me or what I wish he could.” This beautiful film, recorded during a Dazed&Confused fashion shoot, brings to life Blottiere’s two dimensional images in a way that is ephemeral to the core.
