"All travel is - and should be - a new way of apprehending the world, with its ups and downs, its realities above all. Travelling forges us and gives us the strength to change the world a little, after having changed a lot ourselves" — Franck Michel<br/> For Samuel, travel is above all an inner adventure, a food for the soul, as long as it is not consumed but lived.
The extreme beauty of certain photographed moments often rhymes with rarity. By limiting the number of prints of certain artworks, Samuel wishes to pay tribute to the singularity of these unique moments graciously offered by Mother Nature. She also reminds us that everything that is rare is precious, and that it is all the more vital for us to protect her.
"The desert attracts the nomad; the ocean, the sailor; the infinite, the poet. " — Jospeh Roux<br/> In the middle of nowhere, surrounded by sandy curves, magic of erosion, lulled by the immensity of a perpetual beauty in motion, filled with wild dreams, a man is nourished by peacefulness and the artist by inspiration.
"Nothing feeds inspiration better than love." — Isabelle Jarry.<br/> So it comes as no surprise that Samuel loves this earth so much, loves nature and everything it has to offer. It is by regularly immersing himself in the middle of it that his photographic work is enriched season after season. "I never go into nature with the primary goal of making images, it is above all a vital need for my psychic and physical balance. Bringing back images is my way of expressing and sharing all the happiness it brings me." — Samuel Bitton.
"Which man could live without a fairy tale, without a little dream?" — Georges Méliès.<br/> Up there, the summit shivers, the mountain is draped in its white coat, its lace collar in a morning scarf, embraces it with the love of winter’s warmth. Under its opaline lights, shines the rising star, the enchantment of the cold touches our hearts sensibly. <em>(Françoise Sagon)</em>
"Autumn is the spring of winter" - The painter Toulouse-Lautrec. <br/> The explosion of colours and the softness of autumn light sublimate the peaks and redraw their sinuous contours. Wizard of colours, painter of the romantic season, of his warm palette he redraws the horizon. The flamboyant Autumn hurries to exist, before the immaculate pilgrim invites himself, winter is already sketched out. <em>(Françoise Sagon)</em>
"On the dark ocean of the valleys, the high load of rocks and ice rose into the sky like a sailboat covered with canvas" - Jean Giono.<br/> The bare rock shudders under the wrath of the cruel blizzard. When the virginal snow coat slips off his proud shoulders, the crystalline ice of its coldness brushes against it. To contemplate oneself, never gets tired, in the mirror lakes. <em>(Françoise Sagon)</em>
"At the top of the peaks, we realize that the white of the snow, the blue of the sky and the gold of the mountains have the same value. " - Anonymous Poet. <br/> In the hot hours, the Léman symphony plays the golden reflections of a soft evening. The colours magnify the proud mountain over the seasons: virgin purity of snow on sparkling peaks, red passion of a twilight with a vast horizon, shy pink of the dawn, promise of an elegant sunrise. <em>(Françoise Sagon)</em>
Beyond the clouds, the purity of a wavy path envelops the painted landscape, an ephemeral scarf and reveals the heavenly curtain. Just like those dreamlike titles, the poetic images of this exclusive gallery are proposed as unique prints. Indeed, Samuel Bitton's artistic approach is increasingly oriented towards more graphic and refined lines. He goes to the essencial and finds the quintessence of the mountainous and vertiginous landscape, like a painter at the tip of his brush. <em>(Françoise Sagon)</em>