A BOOK TO CAPTURE THE MOMENT
Born from the encounter between the sensitive eye of photographer Christel Martin and the poetic writing of Paul-Henry Bizon, this book offers an immersion into a universe where light becomes matter and alabaster, a language. Page after page, the book traces the emergence of a singular visual expression, shaped by time, gesture, and emotion. Between memory and creation, interior landscapes and architectural fragments, it reveals alabaster in its most sensitive dimension, at once raw and luminous, silent yet vibrant. Photographs, texts, and visual pauses compose an intimate narrative, far removed from simple documentation. Conceived as a pause, a passage, a way of capturing the moment while inscribing the material within a longer continuum.
With its 240 pages, the book invites a different way of seeing: light as presence, material as emotion, the object as experience. Published by Éditions de La Martinière, in the fine art book collection.
“Alabaster transforms through gaze, gesture, and intuition.” - The Infinite Landscapes of Alain Ellouz, Paul-Henry Bizon
THE GAZE THAT REVEALED ALABASTER
Christel Martin is a photographer. Her work explores material, silence, and light through sensitive, inhabited compositions. For The Infinite Landscapes of Alain Ellouz, she accompanied every stage of the book’s visual creation: image selection, photography, and photographic narration. At the heart of the book, she presents a personal image notebook, a poetic journey in which alabaster dialogues with gesture, landscape, and movement.
Her photographs capture the breath of a place, the trace of a savoir-faire, and reveal what the material entrusts to light.
© Christel Martin x David Chambard - Pose et pause
©Julie Balagué
HE LENT HIS PEN TO ALABASTER
Paul-Henry Bizon, writer and publisher, gives words to Alain Ellouz’s luminous intuition. His work explores the connections between text and material, memory and gesture. In The Infinite Landscapes of Alain Ellouz, he crafts a sensitive narrative, both biographical and poetic, tracing the genesis of a language: that of alabaster, light, and time.
His words extend the forms, open up silences, and reveal the invisible dimension of creation
An invitation to discover alabaster in a new light.
