Blooming Haze
Etienne Francey
( Words Giorgia Magrin )Etienne Francey’s photographs seem to emerge in that suspended moment when night slowly shifts to day—in that hazy instant when images begin to fade under the weight of darkness, while the mind gradually adjusts to the new colours of morning. His subjects appear immersed in an unreal, dense light that does not merely reveal but transfigures—bringing hidden details to the surface, redrawing contours, and making colours vibrate. His plastic, saturated colourations feel like fiction, as if nature itself were being redrawn under the newborn light of day—or as if someone had traced a sharp boundary, a line, only to fill it with thick, oily brushstrokes.
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Etienne Francey
Etienne Francey was born in 1997 in Fribourg, Switzerland. He graduated from the Vevey School of Photography in 2019. He works as a freelance photographer, primarily in the commercial and editorial sectors, and is represented by the Margot de Roquefeuil agency in Paris. Inspired by the natural world, Etienne Francey uses various photographic techniques to distort and color the subjects he captures. In a constant quest to transform reality, his photographs are guided by the concept of movement.
