Along the Camargue horizon the salt heaps of the Salin-de-Giraud form a skyline similar to the Moon hills. Their colours change with the light and the seasons. They create a mysterious and poetic landscape. Moreover, they bear witness of the town industrial activity: salt production that started in 1856 and continues today. The salt marshes landscape, result of Man’s labour and therefore as kind of architectural product, has always conveyed in my eyes a fantastic dimension that enables it to escape from the industry that created it. This photograph is intended to evoke that dimension through colour and loss of scale.
Artiste
Leslie Moquin was born in 1986. She studied international relations at La Sorbonne, then joined the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in Arles, from which she graduated in 2013. In her work, based on an aesthetic and a documentary approach, she explores the social and geopolitical contexts of the places she studies.
Leslie Moquin also created :
01 / L’objectif / Hélène Bellenger
02 / La fureur du Dragon / Florian Da Silva
03 / Le testament d’Orphée / Elsa Leydier
04 / Les salins / Jeanne Grouet
05 / Deux enfants qui s’aiment / Julie Hrnčířová
06 / Le Cirque / Amélie Blanc
14 / Cadre sur le Rhône / Amélie Blanc
15 / Contemplation Instantanée / Quentin Carrière
16 / Quai – Arles / Amélie Blanc
17 / Le rocher / Vivien Ayroles
18 / Miroirs-étang du Vacarès / Lexane Laplace
19 / Le visage / Florent Basiletti
20 / Les mimosas / Estelle Ogura
21 / La route / Barnabé Moinard
22 / Le Rhône / Daniel Robles
23 / Vue de train / Quentin Carrière
24 / Les amandiers / Lexane Laplace
25 / Les pins penchés / Vivien Ayroles
26 / Peinture / Loeiza Jacq
27 / Paysage Nicolas de Staël / Lila Neutre
28 / Les Alyscamps / Lise Dua
29 / La barque / Françoise Galeron
30 / Eloge au Pays d’Arles / Elsa Leydier
31 / L’Arlésienne / Elsa Leydier
32 / La Bibliothèque / Steven Daniel
33 / La Sainte-Victoire / Leslie Moquin
34 / Baudelaire et l’Arlésienne / Lila Neutre
35 / Saint-Exupéry / Elsa Leydier
36 / La chèvre de M. Seguin / Florian Maurer
37 / La Vaporeuse / Lila Neutre
40 / Les gorges du Gardon / Agathe Mouchès
41 / Les Arènes / Steven Daniel
42 / Le train la Côte bleue / Agathe Mouchès
43 / Les salins / Leslie Moquin
44 / Le MAPA de nuit / Steven Daniel
45 / La piscine Tournesol / Leslie Moquin
46 / Les fouilles de la Verrerie / Pauline Rousseau
47 / Le Pont de Fourques / Florian Maurer