I think that the act of photographing appeared in my life to allow me to enter into a relationship with the world, all the while keeping my distance, with the photographic camera held up like a shield. Since then, I have been attentive to the shadows and lights I encounter and capture to make them reappear in a different light. A slow deconstruction in the darkroom of the images I have taken. A long dialogue with shadows and lights, as though I were a geometer moth. My sensitivity put at the service of that which must appear. Of that which must be kept silent.

Simon Émond (they) are a self-taught photographer born in Canada in 1992. It is in Métabetchouan, on the shores of the Pekuakami, that they live. Recently, they co-published Rebâtir le ciel, their first book.

The Digital Creation Co-laboratory was set up by Centre SAGAMIE and was made possible thanks to the financial support of the Direction régionale du ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec by way of the Du Numérique en Culture program.