The garden was created by Albert Kahn on land he acquired in 1895, entrusting part of the work to landscape architects Henri and Achille Duchêne. Until 1910, he created a series of landscape scenes in different styles over an area of 3.9 hectares, which together form a garden with scenes, a characteristic style of the late 19th century.
Albert Kahn believed in universal peace. To support his utopia, he created a garden made up of several scenes reconciling the styles of each country.
It comprises a Japanese village, created in 1898 on the return from Albert Kahn's second trip to Japan, a French garden, created in 1895 by two prestigious landscape gardeners of the time: Henri and Achille Duchêne, an English garden, a Vosges forest and a 'blue forest' featuring a group of Atlas cedars and Colorado spruces.
I made this series during my first visit to the garden, and through it I wanted to convey my vision of nature, which I developed during the shoot. For me, it's essential to convey my emotions through my photos. To understand them, you have to concentrate on the light, the contrasts and the luminance of the photos. Through black and white my vision is refined and gives way to a real mode but also to my world in which I let my thoughts, my emotions take over in order to make pictures that are sentimentally personal but at the same time universal that pushes the viewer to ask questions.
