In this world where everything has to go faster and faster, driven by our smartphones, appointments, planes to catch, and all these imperatives that punctuate our lives, practicing photography is like taking a break, forcing yourself to take your time.  Because to take a real photo you do have to take your time, the time to understand the scene that is unfolding, to analyze it and to go around it. You need to isolate yourself to compose the image. In any case, this is how I have been practicing photography for years now. And, more than a passion, it has become a real need for me.

In our cities where everything goes fast, many places are forbidden to us, because they are under construction, because they are places with « reserved » access, because they want to hide them from us. I visit these places, sometimes with authorization, sometimes without it, because I can’t stand forbidden areas. To access the hidden places of the planet is to understand its functioning, its oddities, and more generally, to understand the world. It’s true, sometimes it makes me feel disenchanted or angry, but most of the time it fills me with happiness.

So, while most people live their lives like hurried men, I contemplate them from a rooftop, in a solemn calm, disturbed only by the clicks of my trigger…

My name’s Gregory Kerouac, and I am a Photographer