If the members of the Landi photo club association have gotten into the habit of meeting every Friday evening, at the Maison des arts et de la culture, this December 13, a surprise awaited them. The secret had remained well kept and it was only when they arrived in the room that they discovered the guest of the day, in the person of Mathieu Rivrin.
The eyes began to flash, because meeting such a luminary is fortunate. And the story is all the more incredible because the artist in no way predestined himself to become a professional photographer. “In order to obtain an engineering diploma in electronics, I went to Grenoble for 4 years. There, with a small compact camera, I started photographing insects and flowers,” he explains. And here are the beginnings of a long adventure which began in 2010. “Every return to Finistère is an opportunity to photograph the sea”: a certain way of curing homesickness when we are at sea.
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Over time, he took pleasure in taking photos of exceptional weather phenomena. And it is also the photos taken during storm Justine, in February 2021, which will reveal it to the general public. That day, through patience and no less than 4,000 images taken continuously, the face of Poseidon appeared in a wave that crashed into the port of Lesconil. “Others saw it as a Caribbean monster. The most important thing is to make people’s imagination work,” says the photographer.
Members left with some advice that they can apply to prepare the photos for their next exhibition in June 2025, on the theme of reflections. Because for Mathieu Rivrin, “the purpose of an image is to be printed”.
