François Desjardins
Photography
"Photography has never been, for me, a way of simply seeing reality. It is a way of questioning how images shape our perception of the world.
For over fifty years, from darkroom experimentation to digitally layered works, I have explored what happens when we stop assuming that a photograph is evidence. I refuse to simply reproduce what is already familiar, choosing instead to explore the space between image, memory, and perception.
Rather than offering definitive answers, each image I produce aims to remain open, maybe even puzzling, inciting viewers to return, to move beyond recognition, to make their own connections and discover or write their own story within the image.
For this year's Studio Tour, visitors are invited to follow the evolution of this ongoing inquiry through five decades of photographic experimentation, from analogue processes to contemporary digital works and to discover how photography can become a creative, conceptual medium rather than a merely reproductive one."
For over fifty years, from darkroom experimentation to digitally layered works, I have explored what happens when we stop assuming that a photograph is evidence. I refuse to simply reproduce what is already familiar, choosing instead to explore the space between image, memory, and perception.
Rather than offering definitive answers, each image I produce aims to remain open, maybe even puzzling, inciting viewers to return, to move beyond recognition, to make their own connections and discover or write their own story within the image.
For this year's Studio Tour, visitors are invited to follow the evolution of this ongoing inquiry through five decades of photographic experimentation, from analogue processes to contemporary digital works and to discover how photography can become a creative, conceptual medium rather than a merely reproductive one."
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2026 Tour
