The ‘Alter’ series, a series of unique works, goes beyond classical photographic geography, drawing new territories.
Through a process of print alteration, Laetitia Lesaffre uses photography as a material that can be crumpled, scratched, separated and folded. She peels away the image’s epidermis, bringing it back to life in 3 dimensions. In this way, she rediscovers the striations of wood, the weft of canvas and the texture of paper on which she applies traditional Asian lacquer, serving as a support for the reflections that are the founding principle of her photographs.
During the various alteration baths, the fragile, shifting material often takes over in the trickle. Nature seems to take over, albeit initiated by the movements that the artist suggests to ink and paper. She then accepts her own genius.

The torments of the prints’ skin reveal those of the faces and bodies photographed, which then inexorably draw new landscapes. The reliefs thus created reveal the flaws in the image, and remind us of our innermost fragility.
These shifting gelatins are like chrysalises. They create landscape portraits, inviting metamorphosis and a kind of rebirth.