In January 2004, I’ve followed my wife Patrice, who would participate in a congress in Helsinki. Soon after we went, on some friends’ invitation, to Lapland, the region in the north of Scandinavia, best known for its reindeer and a legendary resident.

This collection is an unassuming record of this place, and above all a study of the impact, especially at the height of its winter, in his absence, in human, sounds and colors. These images of peace and silence, in my view, rely heavily on the format in which they were captured.