4 / Do you think it is important to be technically competent? It all depends on what you want to do. To make an analogy with music, one can play a simple melody with very few instrumental and theoretical skills. If we want to go further in the discourse, we must learn the keys to language. Some do things very well in a very intuitive way, but the danger is to always do the same thing, not to evolve, to tire. For me, it is very important to master the techniques I use so that I can achieve the result I want. 5 / Why do you shoot with film rather than digital? Haha, the famous analog vs digital question ... I stopped making pictures for a few years in the mid 2000s. When I started again, I naturally turned to digital. 6 months later, I started again to shoot with my old Leica and a year later I no longer had a digital camera. This choice is very personal and I do not advise against digital, in any way. I just find that digital images are disembodied, lack reality, brilliance, life, dynamics ... I do not like the digital workflow. As a graphic designer, I spend my days on my computer, and that's good enough. I need to do things with my head and with my hands, I need sensuality, sensation, odors, failures, accidents, irreparable errors to appreciate the successes. For practical reasons I scan the negatives and make my prints in Lightroom. 6 / B&W or colour, what makes you choose one over the other? It all depends on the subject, the light, what I plan to do with the picture, insert it in a series or not, the atmosphere I want. It also depends on the film that is in the camera that I have in my hands.
ERIC FROT