My Tunisia, that of "This is not about Tunisia", resembles this fleeting moment that is the blue hour, this moment of grace between melancholy and light. The heart wavers, evanescent, changing. It is this moment when the blue, sublimated by the last glimmer of the sun, crosses and gradually gives way to darkness. Light and shadow brush against each other with the tips of the fingers, exchange, then each return to their extreme.
This almost original dialogue nourishes my photographic gaze. This Tunisia is that of my doubts, where my reality collides with my dreams, a bipolar cycle echoing myself, wandering on the horizon of my childhood.
I see this hypnotic sea, calm and soothing, in which I let myself be enveloped without fear... like a child in its mother's arms. But it is there, in this deceptive tranquility, that the storm is born.
"In composing the self-produced fanzine, This is ̶n̶o̶t̶ about the Devil Inside , the Belgian photographer decided to explore, using black & white and color film, the twists and turns of his psyche, and of a life that appears chaotic."
"By photographing his nocturnal and fantastical excesses, by exposing them in order to, perhaps, atone for them, by confessing his immense pain, David Ameye places himself on the path to redemption, the greatest sinners never being very far from the grace of saved beings."
Fabien Ribery
The interval.blog
...A DECEPTIVE AND AMBIVALENT FEELING...
David Ameye was born in 1973 in Belgium. He spent a large part of his childhood in Tunisia. He currently lives and works in Namur (B).
His photographic universe, which he himself describes as deceptive and ambivalent, stems from a melancholy whose genesis dates back to his youth and which, even today, feeds this insatiable need to transcribe his daily life with brilliance.
His images are defined more as an outlet for his sensitivity.
His photographic approach is a meeting point between his inner world and reality. He does not seek to disguise the tangible or to embellish it.
Every emotion captured or transcribed is transmitted abruptly.
A so-called 'intuitive' photography.
One might consider his work to be without apparent reason, but his entire body of work reveals a coherence charged with a strong emotional tension.
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