I had wanted to make a new series with Audé for some time, and this time I took her to La Chaux-de-Fonds. The city sits in the west of Switzerland, French-speaking, and it feels different from many other places in the country. Its old grid plan, the straight streets and hard edges create a quiet urban structure that already carries its own rhythm. On this summer day, there was little movement, and that stillness became part of the work.

We set out to discover the city together and quickly found what interested us most: the simple, the ordinary, the things that are easy to overlook. Doors, walls, streets, fragments of surfaces and gestures that do not try to be more than they are. The series stays close to that attitude. It does not rely on dramatic moments or a polished idea of the city, but on small observations that reveal themselves through attention.

The black and white images carry a restrained calm. They hold space for shadow, texture and contrast, while keeping the frame open enough to let the viewer move into the scene. The presence of the model is direct but never forced, and the city surroundings remain important throughout. Together they create a quiet visual conversation between body and architecture, between proximity and distance, between what is seen and what is only sensed.

That is what I value in this work: it feels immediate and unpretentious, but still complete. It draws the viewer into the moment and leaves enough room to experience the discovery as something personal. Nothing here is spectacular, and that is exactly where its strength lies. The joy is in noticing, in moving through a place with open eyes, and in trusting that the most ordinary details can still hold a strong photographic presence.