French photographer Salomé Jartoux has released two new silver-based series: one entitled ‘On the Road’ and the other ‘Kampot II’. One of her photos, taken in Nesat Village, was recently selected for the Changing Asia competition organised by China Daily and the Asia News Network.
Salomé Jartoux is originally from Rennes in Brittany. After spending six months in Chile in 2012, she decided to pursue photography on her return to France. She has lived in Paris for over a decade, working with well-known brands such as American Apparel, By Zoé, Tammy & Benjamin, and Arty Dandy and collaborating with various modelling agencies. Her work has been exhibited in South America, Europe and Asia.
Her travels and encounters have profoundly shaped Salomé's eye, and her primary aim is to capture the spontaneity of the moment in every shot. Rather than seeking aesthetic perfection, she focuses on depth, authenticity and intimacy. Her work is about capturing authentic, unadorned moments.
She draws inspiration from photographers such as Nan Goldin, Stephen Shore and Ed Van Der Elsken, as well as writers such as Guy de Maupassant, Françoise Sagan, Marguerite Duras and Annie Ernaux. She is also influenced by filmmakers such as Éric Rohmer, Jean Eustache and Cyril Collard.
For Salomé Jartoux, photography is an act of creation based on what moves her: words, sensations, atmospheres and intimate feelings. Her images are born of the emotional currents that drive her and translate them into visual poetry.
Talking about Cambodia, Salomé said in a previous interview :
“The light in this country captivated and enchanted me. The right mix of colours, on the clothes, the houses, the walls. Everything was magnificently disordered, but I could find this disorder within myself. It wasn't foreign to me, I understood it in a way.”
“This is in stark contrast to life in Paris, where people don't smile much, where warmth is scarce, where living space is scarce, and where finding a ray of sunshine is a challenge, even a celebration. Paris is perhaps the only place in the world where melancholy and sadness can be transformed into joy, into contentment, into a very fine and rare pleasure in itself. A masochism learned early on through the arts and letters, and which shapes the mind, which moulds the personality. Cambodia is the exact opposite.”
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