Extremely sensitive to the efforts people exert cultivating their appearance, Thomas Geffrier takes an approach close to photojournalism all while constructing a very personal œuvre as a portraitist. He captures his subject like a collector. He carefully observes the postures that the ego impresses on a silhouette, snapping quickly so as to preserve the spontaneity, the timidity, the trace of childhood, that bit of magic in the instant. He aims to capture truth in that so-brief moment when the body and face are still unconsciously and imperfectly expressing what they aspire to look like.
