Une Habitude Curieuse (A Curious Habit) is an ongoing photographic series made during repeated journeys to Brittany, France. Returning to the same accommodation, beaches, roads and coastal paths has established a familiar rhythm in which photography becomes part of inhabiting the landscape.
The title refers to the paradox of curiosity becoming habitual. Although the locations remain familiar, each visit brings subtle changes in light, weather and human presence. The camera searches not for novelty, but for difference within the familiar: an empty roadside at dusk, a parked scooter, or a view from a window. These modest moments accumulate into a portrait of place shaped as much by memory as geography.
Informed by the cinematic sensibility of Éric Rohmer, particularly A Summer’s Tale (Conte d’été) (1996), the photographs find quiet drama in the ordinary. Like Rohmer’s films, they linger on moments of waiting, passing and contemplation. Through the repeated act of looking and returning, the familiar landscape becomes both known and continually rediscovered.
