His playing field is filming. Where she usually officiates as a still photographer. Deprived of work since the start of confinement, Stéphanie Branchu spent “two weeks tidying up” her house in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, before embarking on a new photographic project.
“Since we are almost all confined to families, these are the families I wanted to show. To highlight everyone’s privacy and daily life during confinement, explains Stéphanie Branchu. Symbolically, I wanted to reveal personalities, moods and individual trends, through accessories or activities that would best illustrate the confinement of homes. Sport, cooking, DIY, learning, partying, music… ”
His project, “Family Therapy” is therefore composed of around fifty black and white photos on which pose the families whose members each chose an object or an attitude which left its mark on this so atypical period: sewing machine , badminton rackets, exercise bike, laptop, novel, paper airplane, kitchen whisk or bottle of wine…
“These small photo sessions, even if the time of the photograph was never very long, were for all of us a little oxygen balloon, says Stéphanie. Beyond the work of remembrance for families and for the community, this allowed us to meet – even from afar – and to live together a very nice human adventure. “
The entire Family Therapy project is visible on the account Stéphanie Branchu’s Instagram (StephanieBranchu) where she posts a new photo every day.
They posed for Stéphanie
“A good opportunity to do something quirky and fun”
“Stéphanie is a friend, says Virginie, confined with her niece Bulle and her son Milo. When she offered me the photo, I immediately accepted because it was a good opportunity to laugh and do something quirky and fun. I especially wanted to take a photo that makes people smile. Since the start of confinement, we take an aperitif every night, it has become the daily festive moment. So the bottles came naturally. But we didn’t want to risk spoiling wine… We first drank everything and then we filled them with vinegar to take the photo! “
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“Keep track of this very special period”
“This paper plane is the most astonishing anecdote of our confinement,” says Benoît, referring to the little fold that his daughter Fleur is holding. It is thanks to him that our daughter made contact with several people on our street to get to know each other, including Jean-Michel Cortana, who animates the neighborhood every evening at 8 p.m. Then he was the one who told Stéphanie about us. We really enjoyed this experience. In addition to the nice side of the photo, it is important to keep track of this period which was so special, with sometimes difficult moments but also special moments with family and this kind of beautiful meetings. “
“It had never happened to us to get together for so long”
“We immediately liked the idea of participating in a collective project,” says Palma, the girl in the hat. Parents, my two sisters and my brother and I, who usually live in Paris, it had never happened to us to be locked up for so long together. We’re lucky, the six of us get along well. She poses with a sheet in reference to the ones she regularly keeps on the Internet. “Mum has her sewing machine because she made blouses, dad prepares us several breads a day, Guénolée delighted us with his dishes while revising his exams, Melchior has a novel in hand because he promised to read two a week and Magda donned a kimono in reference to all of Hayao Miyazaki’s work posted on Netflix between February and April and which she discovered with happiness, ”decrypts Palma. Daou is also there. “But our second dog, Momo, is missing,” said the young woman.
“Right now, the rolling pin is a bit of dual use”
“I saw a word on the WhatsApp loop of my daughter Flore’s class,” says Anne. In talking with Stéphanie, I understood that it was above all a subject on the human, families, quirky and funny. Without being fooled. This is what decided me. When Stéphanie arrived, we thwarted her shooting plans and we took out all our small objects before climbing on the wall. I think we kind of wanted to be on the street, to take this opportunity to go out. Me, my rolling pin, it’s a little dual-use: I cook a lot at the moment and, in addition, with all these teenagers confined to the house, sometimes you have to show your grip! “
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