Building X

These photos, from my series ‘Mistral’, were made in a 1970s brutalist building located in the Provence, southern France. Dramatically situated on a forested hill, its high walls protecting against the strong Mistral winds, this robust architectural masterpiece was used as a home and atelier. The photos show how even a concrete, bulky building can be light, in both senses of the word. There’s a constant light show going on, a play of sun and shade, which made it so interesting to capture in black and white. The strictly defined -typically brutalist- lines form an almost moving contrast with the symptoms of age, the cracks, rot and mould.