A Parallel Planets piece by Unknown
Parallel Planets presents Camille Marie Bieber
in Mental Memoirs: Chimères
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"Chimères is a contemplation of humans and nature merging together, in the beauty of dreariness.
Theses images were taken during a summer while I was too self centered. The idea of this series was born while I was abroad, in Sweden, surrounded by huge forests and the Baltic Sea. I wanted to retrieve this feeling of quiet, where I could escape even for a few minutes. I went back to the sturdiness of real life, and I used my melancholia to create something beyond my spleen and walk in my city, looking for some peace through chimeras. I shot a roll of Portra 400, my favourite film. Every picture on it turned kind of blue, reminded me of this country I left, which is green and blue to me, with the purest air I have had breathe.
I always put a lot of myself in my series and explanations looks a bit intimate, but each photo is a story, either fictive of real. I shoot a lot of my friends, strangers sometimes, but at least it speaks about me and always will be. But I’m just words, flesh, and that summer I was also tears. Until I realized in Scandinavia that it wasn’t fair. There is so much more, we are so much more. And by watching the nature covering my anxiety until crushing it to transform it into creativity, I was rising. We’re always be in trouble because we’re fragile, but there is many ways to turn this fragility into beauty." -- Camille Marie Bieber on her photo series, Chimères
About the Artist: Camille Marie Bieber is a French photographer, born in October 1989. She started photography for memories even though she hated it at first, when her mother gave her disposable cameras during summer camps. She went to high school in an art class and photography seemed to be the best medium for which she wanted to express herself. She graduated in 2010, lived in Paris for two years, and went back to Lyon to pursue analog photography at the same time.
