Franck Seguin

apnée apnéiste Guillaume Nery plongée

Un mot sur l'oeuvre

"Our odyssey extends into Maya land, I realized the most surreal and most unexpected diving of all my explorations, in the cenotes of the Yucatan peninsula, real sinkholes immersed in the heart of the jungle forming an infinite underground network Its translucent fresh water ends in the ocean, a fantasy picture of hell, a huge white cloud lining the bottom of the abyss, and a circular vertical wall around it. It is a natural amphitheater in the middle of which I am suspended. "
Guillaume Nery

The story is born with a meeting.
Franck Seguin has been leading a personal work on apnea for several years on the sidelines of his brilliant career at L'Equipe.
He works with Guillaume Néry, multiple champion of the world of apnea, since always.
A photograph taken during the training of Guillaume had already earned the world Press, sports category, Franck Seguin.
Since Guillaume Néry retired from high competition, they often exchange.
It was on the idea of ​​Franck, wishing to speak of apnea as a way of life, that was born this project, he wanted to meet the people of the water.
The trip took a year. He gave One breath around the world, a fabulous trip to the great apnea sites of the planet to meet men, and animals that populate them. Guillaume made a film made with his partner Julie Gautier. Franck brought back some photographs. A remarkable job.
The catalog which follows, is the substantive. 35 images among a few thousand, those who, because of their aesthetic quality, their poetry, their sometimes dreamlike, we seemed to be able to access the rank of works.
Only 9 copies of each will be released.
6 prints on sale + 3 that the artist reserves. Prices increase with each issue.
The works are proposed framing included: Diasec original framed realized under the control of the author.

Le témoignage de Franck Seguin

Cenotes (Yucatan-Mexico)
"The cenotes come from Maya dz'onot which means "sacred well". They are chasms or wells in karstic medium, totally or partially filled with a superficial layer of fresh water and sometimes a lower layer of seawater, they communicate with the ocean by faults and / or other conduits. The Maya considered these wells as a means of communication with the gods of the infra-world, the chasm representing a mouth. They used them as a reserve of water soft (there is no fresh water on the surface in the Yucatán peninsula), but also as a place of worship in which sacrificial offerings or sacrifices were thrown out. An underwater light and an incredible atmosphere emerge these places, which are both exceptional and strange. We will explore the infra-world of the Mayans in a search of a past full of stories. "
Franck Seguin

Le choix de Jean-Denis