La Rochelle est une ville

In the summer of 2010 I was artistinresidence at Intermondes and the International Film Festival of La Rochelle My ambition was to try and capture some of the towns psyche and a little bit of its geography To this end I was aided by the photographer Sebastian Edge his ancient wet collodion photographic techniques a mobile dark room and his assistant Gloria Lin I documented the making of a series of photographs that managed to capture a sense of place Ever alert to the spirit of timesgone I have edited sounds and images that evoke a somewhat offkilter reading of all things Rochellaises Andrew Kötting