Alzheimer, Who are you ?

Rather than focusing on the patient, this series of images is an introspective approach to Alzheimer’s disease. Immersion of a memory, to try to make a representation of the disorder and help understand it.

Alzheimer, Who are you ?

Rather than focusing on the patient, this series of images is an introspective approach to Alzheimer’s disease.

Immersion of a floating memory, in the fog… in decomposition.

Faces sink into an inextricable past that evaporates day after day, and looks fade away.

Many questions remain.

How is it that a person looking in the mirror doesn't recognize himself and sees another person?

One day, I was in the home of a couple, and the gentleman asked me: "Say, that lady over there is my wife, isn't she? What's her name again?

They've been married for over 73 years, they know each other like the back of their hand, how could such a thing be possible?

It was what we call a first cloudy passage. 

These brain-clogging clouds then become more and more frequent, until a permanent fog sets in.

At this point, we sometimes speak of a clearing, when for a brief moment a few memories become legible again.

It was precisely these periods of clouds and lightning that gave me the idea of working directly on the emulsion. Like a memory parasite.

I intervene on the negative, just as illness can intervene in the brain, to try to make a representation of the disorder and help understand it, or at least recognize it.