For more than thirty years, Jean Luc Mylayne has been photographing the birds of his native France.
The creation of each image is a laborious process which can take months as Mylayne returns to the same location, day after day, waiting for his “actors,” the birds, to play their parts before his lens.
“When I see a bird, I see at the same time that bird on a tree near the house. I see everything as an ensemble, and I realize that’s how I see everything in life. . . . With my lenses, I can take in that place, then the tree, the bush, the house. I try to capture all those places at the same moment, just like our eye travels from one spot to another in taking in the scene, and I try to reconstitute it.“
