Christmas at Uncle Louis’s

Series of 50 color photographs

Christmas at Uncle Louis’s emerged from a family dinner organized by my uncle, then ninety years old. With meticulous care and modest means, he had prepared the evening as though it were an important occasion: fragile decorations, disposable tableware, small gestures repeated attentively, and an undiminished desire to gather his family together once again for Christmas.

The photographs capture this suspended moment where tenderness quietly coexists with melancholy. Objects, colors, domestic lighting, and details of the décor compose a slightly displaced world, almost outside time, where the traces of another era still remain.

Without indulging in overt nostalgia, the series observes what persists: the dignity of ordinary gestures, the desire to give pleasure, a certain solitude perhaps, but also the unintended humor that emerges from the simplest situations.

Between family chronicle and indirect portrait, Christmas at Uncle Louis’s evokes the fragility of human bonds and that discreet humanity that survives within the most modest details.