Hervé Saint-Hélier, also represented by the Marlborough Gallery New York, initiated his career as a photographer in 1989. Attentive to the world, he is much inclined to travel and transcribe instants that move him and captivate his eye. Opting for the direct experience, he creates pictures with a predilection for the ordinary details that compose the simple texture of a city, a population, a country, a landscape. Equipped with a traditional camera, endowed with vast technical experience and an astonishing sensitivity to luminous frequencies, which he uses as a vibrating palette, Hervé Saint-Hélier relentlessly follows the trails of every continent coveting the impending visual phenomena that he senses. He ventures through Siberia, part of Europe, India, Asia, Amazonia, the Americas, and Ethiopia. At the turn of a road, in a country, in a city or in a forlorn haven, he always lends a contemplative eye on the world, scrutinizing the reality with a remarkable sense of observation.
Sabine Mitre