With time, David Siodos realized that he photographs a lot of people living differently, without constraints or artifice. As if he was naturally attracted by their grace, their presence, their particular charisma.
People in a hurry are more difficult to photograph and their body language seems to be contrived. Are they prisoners of their schedules? Are we all? Does time exist ? Or is it nothing but a timetable that allows us to apprehend reality, that gives us the illusion of having a hold over it? Aren’t pedestrians without any schedule, standing outside timeframe, more in touch with reality ? These are questions that, he believes, motivate his excursions. His work constantly questions the relationship between time and reality.
The series « In the shadow of the livings » tries to capture flutters. He sees each individual as a projection of themselves. Isn’t our identity a story that we tell ourselves over and over again, refining it a little more each day? The photographer want to catch, in the beings he photographs, the point of fusion between their intimate fiction and a world that is beyond us. All day long, David Siodos follows individuals who wander or live on the periphery of life, and who shoulder with the essence of things... To the point of no longer knowing if he is alive... Or simply a shadow.