Only Bleeding

"An essential moment in photography does not exist. When will we understand that we must give up trying to interpret the world through images? Since the very term of index itself is misleading, what do we really see? Once and for all, and Frédéric Stucin's images attest to this, the reason for the actions, the individual behaviours displayed are only constructions, even reconstructions. Photography remains a prisoner of its reputation. When we see "characters" wandering around without a precise purpose, haggard, we must admit our blindness. Alone, dramatically alone in a deregulated world, individuals, whom the very idea of happiness has abandoned, carry a weight, an inexplicable pain forever. At random encounters - the only quality of street photography - individuals offer the spectacle of the atomization of the city. »

François Cheval (Extract)