Location: France
. Composition of the diptychs: Béatrice Léveillé
Photography is 200 years old! This September 2026, photography celebrates its 200th anniversary. The very first photograph, taken in 1826 by Nicéphore Niépce, required several days of exposure—no color, no movement, not a single face. Two centuries later, we capture a smile in one-hundredth of a second, but the act remains the same and the motivation hasn’t changed: to observe the world closely enough to see something worth revealing and sharing.
To mark this bicentennial in my own way, I’m sharing my vacation photos in the form of diptychs: two images linked by a color, a theme, a shape, or a texture—like an echo that you can have fun identifying.
Curation: choosing, sorting, letting go... 200 yearsago , there was nothing to sort through. It took days to take a single photo, with no way to compare or choose. Today, I come back from vacation with hundreds of images. I sort them, archive them, make selections—and only then do I discover connections between them. Today, I’m sharing this curation with you through these images.
🧨 Photography—the real kind—why make a distinction? Every photograph is an image, but not every image is a photograph. Today, there are images created without any light ever passing through a lens, without any place ever having existed. A photograph preserves proof that a moment truly existed, that a place in the world was there, right before our eyes.What we’re celebrating this year are two centuries of reality!
