Valérie Kagy

As a child, I felt different…Silently, I observed the world and very quickly, I observed it through the lens of the camera given to me by my father.  So I watched for little things or big emotions to delight me and tell myself: that’s it! It’s in the box! Street photography was obvious to me, creating this proximity with people and situations to draw the emotional tone of each of my days.

Streets around the world attract me, big and small, those that share places and stories of people in varied contexts and cultures, those that interweave lines and colors, light and shadows. My greatest pleasure is to amaze myself with the beauty of the emotions that I capture, to watch for and highlight the expressions, gestures and details that we no longer see in this world that runs at a hundred miles an hour. and who tell the stories of these streets, of these people.

Franco-Vietnamese, residing in New Caledonia in the Pacific, I like to give an ethno-sociological dimension in my photographic work to document, understand and bear witness to the richness of the different worlds where I live and where I travel.  I play artistically with each of the atmospheres that man creates with his environment…and I feed ecstatically on that.