Trained in philosophy in Switzerland and the United States, I came to photography as a way of exploring the relation between light, form and presence. A Master Class with Joel Meyerowitz in 2013 renewed this pursuit — no longer as a documentary practice, but as a discipline of attention.
Friendship with Giovanni Chiaramonte, the works of Robert Adams, Tarkovski, and Wim Wenders, together with the semiotics of Charles Sanders Peirce, have profoundly shaped my work: the image is not a duplication of reality, but a form of mimesis - a sign of relation between the world before the lens and the consciousness that receives it.
Cedric Pillet
Lausanne, Switzerland