Jour Bleu

• Photographer
  Thomas Dhellemmes, France

With a desire to stay authentic and a wish to immortalize fleeting moments of grace with all the beauty of their imperfection, Thomas Dhellemmes favours Polaroid. 'Jour Bleu', a series of Polaroids captured across four continents between 1983 and 2017, is an enigmatic, sincere and abstract photographic memoir. A spontaneous and intimate journey into the life of the artist. In the book, each polaroid is accompanied by a text written by award-winning author Tahar Ben Jalloun (prix Goncourt). Jalloun takes inspiration from Dhellemmes atmospheric and dream-like Polaroids for his accompanying verse