What did they think when it got dark?

After five miscarriages at close intervals, I use photography as a cathartic gesture not to sink. This work is not born of a desire, but of a vital need.

The approach is quite different from the projects carried out so far; it is more intuitive, reptilian. The result is not decisive,  the gesture matters. Pinhole cameras made from everyday objects, long exposure times, the transformation and the imprint of organic matter, are some of the ways I deepened. I question my relationship to materiality, I explore possible accidents, I look for them. Through a more artisanal photographic practice, I reconnect with the loss of control experienced during stopped pregnancies.

“ The work of Marie-Pierre Cravedi is an exploration of loss and personal grief, and it touched us in a very deep, almost inexplicable way. Choosing an extremely difficult intimate subject - her own miscarriages - to work with, Cravedi depicts her own struggles in a subtle and intuitive, yet very powerful way. Her process becomes her own therapy, her care for photographic accidents creates a way to talk about this topic openly with the viewer, and her approach to the medium displays an attempt to build a different kind of relationship with her own self. This series is a mesmerising body of work, which manages to express both the fragility and the strength of the author in a photographic way, becoming in some sort a visual poetry with its own language, metaphors and symbolism.” – Anna Konstantinova, jury of Near Prize 2022