ROMAIN ESTEBAN | Live in ISOLATION
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“A Day of March Between the Mists” – Short Breaths.
“Suddenly everything accelerates too quickly in the blocks on the beds; sigh went out from the short breaths of life. At 8 pm, we applaud on balconies where the air is lacking. The TV in the background all the time predicts contradict and comments.
My old neighbor below is gone this morning at 7 am and broke, this crazy silence which for ten days in the streets floats Indescribable outside time above ground and this anxiety in foam, which takes the skull, the head the eyes the body, from a March day between the mists.”
ROMAIN ESTEBAN
I’m mostly known as @romestebanr on social networks; I’m just over 40 years old.
I started photography in 2012 after a tragic event in my life that led me to observe things around me better, to freeze them, to try to stop time, to accumulate memories. As many, I took the trip to take some pictures on the iPhone and quickly enough with a Leica and for almost two years with my faithful Olympus Mark III.
Childhood, faces, passing shadows, singular characters are my favorite models; I am also known for my texts under my photos, because I am above all an author, a storyteller, a storyteller of lives.
My favorite fields are the streets or the landscapes of my travels, these last three years, with my family, we traveled France, Italy, Spain, New York, Quebec, Austria or the Czech Republic. Each parcel of these lands has a story;
I like to inspire them to pay tribute to them in the photo.
My camera is never far from me, it’s part of me, it’s my 3rd eye and now part of my soul.
“TO OUR FUTURE PRESENT – PAST [QUARATINE]”
SPEECHLESS HOME / DAY 20.
“Speechless home, day 20, our past like boomerangs, the armor that cracks under the blows, from the head of a fist and this chronic you think we will come to an end, without wear and tear without too many thorns planted all along with our fingers, I forgot the perfume of the roses are you sure tell me that it will come back, and there is this cry inside that taps there like a lion in a cage, I was already frankly not too much, but I will never…”
“TO OUR FUTURE PRESENT PAST [QUARANTINE]” – SENSITIVE SKIN.
“Sensitive skin on the surface, on my air, in my head, in my heart in my life. At the hour that it seems that the horizon is streaked with traces, blues of sore words with vows of stitches and burning bruises, in the shade of I don’t know what to do, a little more alive and in large doses, intravenous of beautiful brothels on the epidermis and it burns. On my sensitive skin, on the surface for our present future past.”
A Short Interview With ROMAIN ESTEBAN
Lens Magazine: Please tell our readers about yourself, what is your background, and how did you start with street style photography.
Romain Esteban: Initially, I am an author, and I have always been inspired by the lives of people who pass in the street, in railway stations, subways. One day in 2012, I started taking pictures of people with my iPhone, and it was successful.
Today my Leica and my Olympus accompany me everywhere.
L. M.: What technology/software/camera gear do you use to keep focused on what you do best? What motivates you to continue taking pictures economically, politically, intellectually, or emotionally?
R. E: I mainly use my Olympus Mark III, I shoot a lot, to have the right light the right profile. After I sort and throw a lot, I want crude emotion. A picture of my point of view must tell a story, make people laugh or cry.
L. M.: What is your best post-processing tip?
R. E: Let the photos rest for a few days or even weeks. To review the possible defects and to diffuse only if one can say to myself: “If I see this picture in a magazine or an exhibition, I say to myself wowwwww.”
L. M.: What is the one thing you wish you knew when you started taking photos at the beginning?
R. E: The sense of framing, let me also say, “do what you want to do, don’t copy, be yourself.” I was lucky to be told since I have progressed a lot, but I have always followed my path.
L. M.: Whose work has influenced you most?
R. E: Doisneau, Tish Murtha, or one of my French friends Nikos Alliagas. Photographers who can bring out the emotion of an image.
L. M.: What is your best photography tip for a good street style shooting?
R. E: Don’t wholly go on an adventure. Have some ideas about what you want to have. To stand there, we know that the light will not surprise, sometimes wait for a long time, press the click, start again and start again.
