Olivier Valsecchi

Paris-based photographer Olivier Valsecchi is covered in a dust made of many maybe-s. He rarely gives interviews and there is little information about him on his website or online at all. The little that I could find  is somehow unsatisfying and always request a “perhaps” before saying it. According to his minimalistic Facebook page he is married to Florent Vacaris. Florent is also the name of one of his images. So it is safe to assume that Florent is at least Valsecchi’s muse.

Valsecchi’s models often appear to exist in some parallel reality. His most recent work, “Dust,” features men and women seemingly caught in a womb-like dust storm — an alternate universe devoid of gravity and color.

Valsecchi explains: “Between death and birth, in a chronological sense. It is the ‘re’. It is the chaos, the confusion between the water and the gloom that is the cradle of the world. Between the fall and the takeoff, the renunciation and the impulse, the bodies are chalky, zombie-like, between animated and disembodied. The in-between, meaning what is nearly, what is not quite.”

Whatever he means by that, one fact doesn’t require a “perhaps” – Olivier’s images will change you.

[Images Olivier Valsecchi]