Charles Fréger. La Suite Basque

Like a suite in music that alternates slow and lively movements, joyful dances or more severe pieces, but always in the same tonality that guarantees its unity, the Basque Suite that Charles Fréger has created is the same photographic variation on the silhouette: each of the six series that make it up, composes images with the form in backlight, in shadow. Charles Fréger’s interest in the silhouette actually dates back to the Wilder mann series, which he gradually accompanied, in his book and exhibitions, by large black silhouettes of the photographed masks. As if the landscapes and the exotic details of his photographs, details which signed in part their originality, had to for the photographer, little by little to be lost, to melt. To become only outlines and black forms which, in the end, would be enough to give the meaning of the characters and their presence. Their silhouette, simple and essential, would then condense what one could call “the soul” of the model.