Jean-Mathieu Saponaro

The Photographer Palette

From my childhood in a Provence in the South of France, to Brooklyn where I live now and roam the streets. I first immersed myself in photography to escape the lines of code in my daily work as software engineer. I see photography as a quest to transform what surrounds us into art, a quest for aesthetics in the simplest fragments of life, yet often ignored. Between scenes frozen in time and mesmerizing colours, I want to take the viewer on a journey, on a US road trip, or simply under the sun.

Just like a painter gradually creates their own unique palette by mixing up colours like never before and never after, the photographer can steal the colours that are around them: on people, on bricks, on nature. These colours can be found in a discreet ray of light, tones coming from winter’s sun, a shadow... These fragments in space and in time were and will never be the same again after the moment captured by the photo.

This series is about stealing those fragments that most people wouldn’t even notice, mix them to create a colour palette and express the art in them.