Chez HIGGINS !

Why has a photographer chosen to use models of a small size? Firstly, the history of looking for the unusual is a specialty in this artform especially when the subject is out of the ordinary. For dwarfs they have always been subject of unwanted gazes.

It was in 1984, after the publication of the book “Marseilles", that I started the first of my photographic rendezvous with Paris.
As I was walking, I discovered the construction sites of the excavations of Napoleon court where two short years later the famous Pyramid of the Louvre would be built...

The capital of modern China, which will soon welcome the 2008 Olympic Games, Peking, is also a city with a very rich past of over 3000 years.
The capital of the Mongol, Ming and Manchou dynasties has at its architectural heart, The Forbidden City, a place unique in the world, a horizontal city that is made up of a multitude of areas and houses with square courtyards called Hutongs.

The fish of acbe do not look at the ground.
They play there. They play. They play with us.
They place us into these pieces.
Parts in an act, in a photograph...

Isolated

Isolated always advance.
All the garden surrounds her.
She forgot her house, her sorrows,
her clothes...

Navarre
A village alive in autarky.
With its gardeners and gardens, its apples for apple cider, its baker's ovens, its cooks, its painters and its fashion workshops.
We are in Normandy, at the beginning of the century, this place was called the psychiatric asylum...

Life
A Shower
Two or even three of us !
Long live the Spa
My body is an island touched by this torrent
My buttocks tender and innocent...

The printing process, callotype, was chosen to match the subject of a traditional gypsy circus. This photographic process uses iron salts with silver nitrate while working from a black and white film negative. It gives the prints a quality that is in the 'feel' of this entertainment that has in it the origins of the modern circus.

B movies, or just plain bad movies?
For one single cinematic blockbuster, you have to count on average 4531 failures.  However the real failures have that special something, and there is always something that sells them. That special something, that means that we still talk about Ed Wood and his Plan 9 from outer space or all of the works of the Troma Studio...

One of the things that we have become aware of in the 20th century is that a work of art is not a goal in itself, but a sort of linguistic tool, a language. In a way the work speaks and tells a story at the same time. In another way, the visual aspects and the feelings in the piece are the traditional themes with the form and the content...

The Casanovas, is really based on a rendez-vous between a photographer and a make-up artist who are both struggling to be creative. Both of them attempting to develop a real sense of emotion and magic at their shoot.

"A brave man, I would say, is someone who isn't knocked down by the wars, someone who is not afraid by the closeness of the enemy but not someone who fattens in the middle of inert bodies"
-Sénèque from "De la constance du sage"

Today I bring up the subject of Molinier, whilst I speak about him and some of his writing in our own private correspondence together, I must bring up the prudishness of his age. My belief is that the contacts I formed at the beginning of the 1960’s have disappeared almost completely.

You have bitten into the apple of forbidden childhood games when the greenness of innocence has gone...
Maybe I am miss-taken?
Cross my heart and hope to die, if I lie I will go to hell!