Nicolas Lahoun is a photographer who lives and works in Biarritz, he's a traveller in the stillness of the silver lens, attracted by the magic that the material teaches him, he dives into the modulations of washi to bring to life the sound structures of the movements of waves and bodies.
A photographer with a passion for the old and the rare, he already has a fine collection of 35mm and medium format cameras, the mechanisms of which he knows to his fingertips, and the artistic eye of which drives him on, locking him away for hours on end in the pit of his laboratory lined with that black and red lighting, in order to develop, coat, fix, isolate and extend the captured light into the shadows.
Years of unlearning the motif in an attempt to depict the complex shapes of reality. Japanese culture captures him right down to the detail of the "washi" paper on which he projects the image. Everything is material, caesura, detail, layer, time, patience, dexterity and a no-nonsense apprentice at the service of mistakes, stains, surprises, irregularities that make up all the beauty, right up to the attachment of the work.
Nicolas pushes his obsession with Japanese brushes to the point of gluing and superimposing the washi, the result of which tests the soul of the creator and all those who recognise his work.