Presentation by Amélie Guinet

Nicolas Sebag is a young street photographer based in Paris who discovered the photographic medium during lock-down. Beyond notable technical skills, his first works already demonstrate a remarkable minimalist elegance.

Street photography gives pride of place to anonymity and often requires patience and discretion. Nicolas Sebag watches for the poetry of a solitary silhouette between the city walls and succeeds in creating a minimalistic, intimate scene amidst the confusion of the big city.

Playing with geometric lines, contrasts and reflections, the urban landscape loses its harshness, cloaks itself in mystery, and transforms itself into a theater of shadows. The deep shade of buildings hides as much as it reveals and frames a hint of playfulness, a sweet escape.

Always isolated, the characters inhabiting his photos focus our attention on their urban miscellanies. Sometimes associated in diptychs following forms and symbols, his photographs take on a new narrative meaning, more dreamlike, where the themes of solitude and the escape of reality through imagination come to mind.