Le Speed climbing est une variante rapide et extrême de l’alpinisme classique, menée en autre par les suisses Ueli Steck, Dani Arnold ou l’espagnol Kilian Jornet. Ici point d’éqiuipe, de cordées ou de matériel lourd. Juste une course contre la montre en solitaire contre la montagne. Le travail photographique s’est focalisé sur les trois faces nord mythiques et les plus difficiles des Alpes: l’Eiger, le Cervin et les Grandes Jorasses. En exposant la pellicule du même temps que les ascensions, le temps court d’exposition usuel de la photographie se transforme en un temps extrêmement long, ou toute forme de mouvement devient gazeux ou invisible. Une inversion temporelle ou les nouveaux records d’ascensions continuellement améliorés transforment la photographie en un acte lent et contemplatif.
Speed climbing is a fast and extreme variant of classic mountaineering leaded by new breeds of climbers like Ueli Steck, Dani Arnold or Kilian Jornet. Here there is no team, ropes or heavy equipment. Just a single-handed race against the clock and the mountain. The photographic work focused on the three mythical and most difficult northern faces of the Alps: Eiger, Matterhorn and Grandes Jorasses. By exposing the film as long as the ascents, the usual short exposure time of photography becomes an extremely long time, where any form of movement becomes gaseous or invisible. A temporal inversion when new and continuously improved ascent records transform photography into a contemplative and slow act.
1/12 | Dani Arnold, 2015.04.22, 1h 46min, Switzerland, 2017
2/12 | Dani Arnold, 2015.04.22, 1h 46min - extract 1, Switzerland, 2017
3/12 | Dani Arnold, 2015.04.22, 1h 46min - extract 2, Switzerland, 2017
4/12 | Dani Arnold, 2015.04.22, 1h 46min - extract 3, Switzerland, 2017
5/12 | Ueli Steck, 2015.11.17, 2h 22min 50s, Switzerland, 2017
6/12 | Ueli Steck, 2015.11.17, 2h 22min 50s - extract 1, Switzerland, 2017
7/12 | Ueli Steck, 2015.11.17, 2h 22min 50s - extract 2, Switzerland, 2017
8/12 | Ueli Steck, 2015.11.17, 2h 22min 50s - extract 3, Switzerland, 2017
9/12 | Ueli Steck, 2008.12.28, 2h 21min 26s, France, 2017
10/12 | Ueli Steck, 2008.12.28, 2h 21min 26s - extract 1, France, 2017
11/12 | Ueli Steck, 2008.12.28, 2h 21min 26s - extract 2, France, 2017
