Yann Rabanier is a french photographer working mainly for personal projects and editorials. Tout Droit is a series which has been shot last winter in the Pyrennees nearby Lourdes. For Yann Rabanier, Tout Droit was almost like a “reportage”. Indeed, Rabanier worked on the subject beforehand and knew what he wanted as a final result, he did not spot the sights before and he could not anticipate the mountain ridges rhythms.
For this series, he used a medium format folding camera, the Fuji GX680 III. It tilts, swings, rises, falls and shifts and therefore create a focusing corridor. The series appeals the eyes as it changes our perception of mountains usually shot in large scale. The blur effect disturbs the scale of the mountains giving the feeling that they are simple objects. It makes them look smaller, giving the viewer the illusion of being in front of a model. It wasn’t the main intention of Rabanier, he wanted to show a direction guiding one’s eyesight to a precise target, whence the title “Tout Droit” which means “Straight”.
Mountain sights have such complex sceneries that two persons very rarely look at the same things even though facing the same direction. I therefore made them get on one and only path.
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