“I particularly like Corine’s pictorial compositions, the choice of her subjects, here the Basque country which is so close to me, the demanding framing.”
 Stephanie Peyrissac
 Corine Darbois, photographer
 The practice of photography, in recent decades, has moved closer to the world of visual arts, to the point of becoming one of the fields where the most relevant artistic issues in relation to the current world are addressed. Three major orientations mark the practice of contemporary photography: that of the document which contradicts or sublimates reality, that of narration which is closer to cinema and that of the pictorial tradition which gives us a view of paintings.
 Corine Darbois's photographic work falls within this latter orientation. Her work draws inspiration from her training as a painter. Regardless of the technique used, each photo is conceived as a painting, creating series that are both pictorial and photographic.
 This series was produced in the Basque Country.
 “The ocean is my essential source of inspiration.
 I try to get away from it, to explore other universes? It brings me back to it, sometimes by roundabout ways.
 My origins are Breton, but the Basque Country is in my heart. With the sea as a link between my two home ports.
 This series is dedicated to him and to all those he met, sailors, surfers, fishermen, who have a passion and infinite respect for him.
 Corine Darbois trained as a painter and later worked in communications. For the past twenty years, she has devoted herself to art photography.
 She has exhibited in Lyon, Bayonne, and several times in Paris.
 She was selected for the Fotofever show in Paris in 2016 and recently for the “Objectifs Femmes” exhibition at the town hall of the 9th arrondissement of Paris.