Raphaël Carette
°1977
Lives and works in Brussels
Raphaël Carette, born in Brussels in 1977, studied photography at the Ecole Supérieure de l’Image “Le 75”. During his studies, he discovered English photography. Martin Parr, Nick Waplington and Richard Billingham became a source of inspiration for him, and helped his work evolve towards color and a resolutely social and documentary approach. He then undertook a major project on his family. Here, he was already showing the spectacle of everyday banality, or the banal everyday, through photography that was both intimate and modestly tinged with humor. He continued this work, exhibiting it at exhibitions such as “Bruissements d’âme, mise au point” and the Bitume[n] festival.
Since then, he has enjoyed taking the time to become part of small social groups with whom he shares their daily lives. He photographs the snippets of life that the intimacy of the moment offers to his gaze. He thus began a photographic investigation in several cafés in Marolles, which he continued in Marchin for the biennial photography event “Et le bonheur…” (And Happiness…) and subsequently in various cafés in Hainaut.
Raphaël Carette also likes to travel the world. These journeys resound like other pretexts for encountering human beings. Through the modality of the encounter or the camouflage of the tourist, he draws a portrait of the world around him. Questioning our relationships with others, the way we arrange our space, our daily lives as foreigners or as inhabitants of a country, our relationships within our community. This photographic research, entitled “Vieuwpoint”, takes the form of several small series that come together to form a large panorama. Raphaël recently undertook two new series, one on Christelle, his colleague at Nos Pilifs farm. The other is about the Saharaoui guides in the last oases at the entrance to the Moroccan desert.