Paris, May 2024
Famille Normande, August 2023 | The Frozen Time©
A year ago, my grandparents told me that they were selling their house, therefore our house. Not having many solutions to remedy the problem, my only power was to accept and immortalize the last moments of my childhood.
In the following week, I met my father’s uncle for the first time in my life.
I discovered a man of incredible kindness and simplicity. I only knew him very little and yet he gave me the most beautiful gift: a statuette that my grandfather (whom I never knew) had made him.
It now sits in my office, and when I see it I think directly of the two of them. It’s certainly the object I hold most dear, after the same grandfather’s camera with which I took all his photos.