When Dorothée Wycart received a box of slides taken between 1968 and 1978 by her father, it became clear to her that these were not only a family archive but also a precious testimony to a close-knit and happy family before the tragic early loss of her parents. This series on childhood is situated at the crossroads of history, the social and also the intimate, a reappearance through the cyanotype process.
The use of this process takes on its full meaning: a return to the origins of photography, to the family origins, to the sources of life. The alchemy required by the process gives back to the artist his demiurgic role, reversing creative chronologies, mixing the private sphere and the universal, creation and the everyday moment, prosaism and magic, the world of the living and the dead…
Cyanotype and Van Dyck prints
Dorothée Wycart 