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Léon photographies (Saint-Priest-des-Champs, France) on 11 June 2016 in Transportation and Portfolio.

Ibex Valley - Along Alaska highway (Yukon), Canada

A l’aube du solstice d’hiver, les journées se découpaient en milliers de crépuscules. La route, elle, n’avait pas changé. Fantomatique, irréelle, et perlée de ces tons blancs que la neige éternelle déposait derrière elle, elle dessinait des méandres bitumés qui se faufilaient au travers de la taïga. A demi-mot, partagés entre un silence apocalyptique et un froid brûlant, nos sens s’égayaient autour du mysticisme de Décembre.

At the dawn of the winter solstice, days were cut in thousands of twilights. The road, on its end, haven’t changed. Ghostly, unreal, and beaded of pearls of these whites tones that the eternal snow was leaving behind, it was drawing asphalted twists and turns that were sneaking through the taiga. Half-worded, spread in between an apocalyptical silence and a burning cold, our sens were brightened up around the mysticism of December.

From inside cultures, people and countries, Léon wants to reflect the world as it is. With and without lines, Léon tries not to lie about what he sees and lets know what people express, and what landscapes tell. Photographic work processed with films (Ilford HP5, XP2, FP4, Pan 100 & Pan 50, Portra 800, 400 & 160, Velvia 100 & 50, Sensia 100, Ektar 100, APX 100, Fomapan 200, Tri-X 400, Rolleï 400, BW400CN & Superia 400) by Nikkormat FS, 1968 & Praktica MTL5, 1984.