For three years, I wandered with my camera through the narrow streets of the historic heart of Saint-Maximin la Sainte-Baume in the Var, a thousand-year-old village forgotten by "modernity." I chose black and white to capture the essence of my emotions: the beauty of the stones, their wear, and that of the inhabitants. The energy of life that resists, too. And the implacable beauty of the light of Provence.

For three years I wandered with my camera in the narrow streets of the thousand-year-old center of Saint-Maximin la Sainte-Baume in the Var forgotten by "modernity". I thing black and white to go deep into my emotions: the wear and tear of the stones, their beauty, the weariness of the neighbors. The energy and the resilience of life also. And the relentless beauty of the light of Provence.