Sebastien Manoury is a photographer who began taking pictures of people in the streets in 2010.
With a spontaneous approach and a snapshot aesthetic, he’s looking for ordinary events, trying to deal with the banality of the daily life. The purpose is to transform that banality into something more interesting, to create a new world, to play with the emotion of the viewer.
Although his work focuses on telling stories, it can’t be defined as documentary photography: Sebastien is not interested in capturing the truth, or to chronicle historic events and daily life. He’s more concerned about stimulate imagination, letting the spectator create his own story, sometimes different from the reality.
“I am a man of few words; always have, always will. My pictures are better than my words. With photography I can show my mood, my humor, my sadness, my wonder… a wide range of emotion I feel wandering the sidewalks.”
