Aurore Bagarry - Rocks

On the French side, going from Calais to Brest and passing through Varengeville, Pointe du Hoc, Cape Levi in ​​the Cotentin and many villages in Finistère and Côtes-d'Armor, Aurore Bagarry photographed a landscape "at close range", to use an expression that can justify the notion of photographic shooting, but which expresses well the sensation of brutal presence felt when looking at these images. In England, on the other side of the Channel, in the same way, the artist symmetrically traveled the coast towards the west starting from Eastbourne to Lizard Point in Cornwall, to, having reached the tip of the peninsula, return towards Maer Cliff near Bude, in the northwest of Dartmoor National Park, facing Wales.
What we see here is of an indeterminate nature and is as much a topographical survey as it is a landscape photograph. There is very little sky, if any, in these images, which are almost impossible to locate unless you have located the location on a map. Whether you are in France or on the other side of the Channel, there is nothing to truly understand it.
The coast seems like a gigantic palette on which the sea has tried its colors: the mauves blend with the yellows and greens of chlorophyll and mud mixed together, the leprous ochres sprout from dwarf bushes, the grays cut with bluish depressions seem to bend under the pressure of the winds, the dark sandstones veined with pink stand out against the gray sky, the cliffs raise the crenellated profile of their white walls stripped by salt, their turrets topped with short grass, sometimes stained with dark lichen, or streaked with vertical bands drawn by the runoff waters.

These Blocks of Frozen Time (extracts) – Gilles A. Tiberghien