Nicolas always said when we were kids that he had a small TV in his head. He would always watch
it, switch channels and never get bored.
Maybe he is still looking at it, now that he
lives in the mountain with his two dogs.
Nicolas is my brother. He left home when he was
17, to become a shepherd in southern France. He grew up in Paris, therefore he hadn't any specific bond with
the agricultural field.
I started photographing him five years ago, when he was living in
a caravan and wouldn't talk to anyone. He would call himself the "mountain's hobo".
Now he
is less angry against society and our family and even started to enjoy to catch up with my mum on the phone.
Le
Grand Silence is a work started in 2010 and is still in progress, with the aim of following my
brother's evolution in the long run.