Elena’s Reverie

At the heart of Elena’s Reverie are the walks I used to take with my daughter in the Bois de Vincennes. She was two years old. We had just moved to Nogent-sur-Marne after seven years spent living in the UK.

It was in these woods, on the outskirts of Paris, that we would sometimes spend a morning or an afternoon together. Precious moments, until life took its course and she started nursery school.

Our walks gradually became less frequent, but I continued to return to the woods. There, I found the calm of those early years, but also a sense of fulfilment in simply wandering through this wild landscape.

Little by little, this place, once associated with walks with my daughter, became a territory I explored with my camera. It was here that my visual relationship with the woods developed and that this project truly began.

Photography gradually became a way of extending my walks and transforming my observations into fragments of life, where reality sometimes seems to drift into a dream. Far from the noise of the Parisian streets, these atmospheres create a more intimate and lyrical vision of Paris.

Elena’s Reverie is therefore as much about my personal relationship with this place as it is about the quiet, strange or unexpected moments of life that unfold within it.