Amicale

Born on 15 November 1967 at Chalon sur Saône, Sebastian PELLETIER-PACHOLSKI makes its photographic debut in childhood.

He returns to photography in 2013, after having left aside his film cameras for years in order to invest time in the education of 3 children.

After many trials and errors in various photographic fields, he specializes in street photography.

Whilst being inspired by photographers like Robert Doisneau, Willy Ronis, William Klein, Vivian Mayer or Henry Cartier Bresson as regards the framing and dealing with contrasts, he keeps at the same time an eye on the photographers of his own generation in order to see what they can bring as innovative in the contemporaries’ way of viewing the world.

He thus develops his own style made up of patience and urban wandering. As he himself describes it, he chooses the scene of his own theatre, then patiently waits for the actors to take their places on stage.

He in fact favors an elaborate sensitivity to a proven technique, searching more the result than the method itself.

The phantoms of the Jungle :

Happening to work often in the Calais region, first at Sangatte, then in the Calais jungle, Sebastian PELLETIER-PACHOLSKI brings back from his voyages a testimony of this ephemeral place.

He puts together a series of black and white photos that show the Life, with neither implication nor indictment on its events.

Nevertheless, can one be impartial in how the migrant crisis is dealt with? It is a question to which the photographer does not offer an answer but which he aims to show from his position as witness/actor.