“I don’t photograph what I see, but what I feel.” For three decades, the photographer LiLiROZE has made blur her photographic signature. Her work, which has been awarded multiple times, revolves around a quest: to give materiality to sensations. How to give form to inherently abstract mental images? How to convey a feeling? How to freeze a moment of brilliance in time and space? While she became known for her sublime images of women that captivated the world of fashion and beauty, with this new monograph, she opens the door to a more personal universe.

LiLiROZE takes you “Ici et Ailleurs” [« Here and Elsewhere »] on an intense journey where emotion reigns supreme. Structured like a film in sequences with a highly cinematic dimension (Nuances, Silences, Abysses, Lost Paradises, Secret Gardens), this voyage gracefully explores the territory of poetry and dreamlike states, sublimating in a great surge mixed with abandon and exploration “the things of life”: desire, passion, longing, childhood, loss, our relationship with passing time. Dedicated to her father, this book is as much an intimate journal and inner journey as it is a window to the world. A magnificent celebration of an invisible beauty that suddenly appears.