Joséphine Vallé Franceschi French, 1989

Biographie

"Time passing forms, for each of us, an inner museum that we visit with joy, sadness, or a blend of both that we call nostalgia. The outlines fade, details become insignificant; reality dissolves—what remains are impressions from which we create dreams. That is my work."

Joséphine Vallé Franceschi is a photographer who creates her images using the technique of superimposition. Working with an analog camera, she captures an initial moment, locks the exposure, and then overlays a second or even a third image, blending time and place into a single frame. No post-production alters these photographs – everything is determined at the moment of capture and revealed on the negative, where she selects the most striking fragments of a dreamlike world. The interplay of transparency, shifting light and colors all occur naturally.

Her work is driven by nostalgia, exploring how memories transform into flashes of remembrance over time. As the years pass, details blur, contours fade, and reality grows faint, leaving behind only impressions – like her photographs, which turn into vaporous images where light and color evoke a sense of rêverie. Deeply inspired by the landscapes of Cap Corse, she captures not just a sense of time and place but also the presence of people and the way they turn ordinary moments into encounters, the mundane into something extraordinary.

For Joséphine, photography isn’t about perfection but harmony. She embraces chance, allowing the unpredictable nature of analog film to shape her work. The beauty of her approach lies in its resistance to absolute control; the grain, texture, and spontaneous nature of each image create an open doorway to dreams and nostalgia.

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