TANIERE Chris

France - Fédération Française de la Photographie et des Métiers de l'image – FFPMI

Specialisations:

Equestrian Photographer

Biography

A gesture. A look. A movement. An emotion. Beyond the technical aspects, photography reveals the extra soul hidden behind a person, a scene, a moment. Christophe Tanière has been fascinated by mechanics since he was a child, and this has given him a love of precision. In a decade, he has understood better than anyone what drives the daily life of horse and riding enthusiasts. A caress on the neck, a kiss on the muzzle, a raging fist raised to the sky when victory is in sight... he captures these details that few manage to distinguish in the tumult of competitions. His ability to renew himself and to bring a new eye to this hushed world gives him a singularity that rarely escapes the eyes of lovers of beautiful images. Quite simply because emotion can be read in each of his shots. Pure, without artifice, without interpretation, without distortion. By turns whispering and exploding, his images offer a natural reading of the intimate relationship woven between human beings and animals. As if, hidden in the background of their lives, he quietly captures the substance of their infinite links. His favourite place? Backstage, where athletes find refuge, believing themselves safe from the public stage. He watches. Not to delight, but to transcribe, to translate the moment. He is a lover of life and feelings, of this constant motor animating the object of his work... passion. Discreetly leaning against a wall, equipped with his camera, he spies without spying, he aims without shooting, he seizes without seizing. He plays with light like others play with night to always reveal his subjects as they are, naked, with an incredible simplicity. Whether it is a question of the greatest sporting events such as the Olympic Games or a simple but rich traditional celebration, Christophe Tanière never betrays the soul of those he immortalizes. For him, photography remains what it has been for more than a century: a faithful testimony to reality. He is content to give it back its truth, to magnify it, to make it immortal. Like an irrefutable proof of our passage through this world, beautiful and intense, like a star that never ceases to shine, not by its brilliance but by its evocative power. The best thing that can happen to us is to entrust our emotions to it as if it were our closest confidant.