Photographer Sébastien Boulois is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of this photo essay. From the project ‘Hunting Days’. To see Sébastien’s body of work, click on any photograph.

Agricultural dumpster 2013-11-16 ST Léger Belgium (2)

Espierres Canal 2013-12-26 St Léger Belgium

Graduated in photography in 1995, I then chose, probably by default, to put an end to the dream and dive into the reality of the vast majority…

Taking all the strength of ubiquity of the propaganda of rampant liberal capitalism, constantly confronted with the victims of our society devoted to this ideological-economic logic, photography has always been a valve for me, allowing me to release some of the pressure, to feel less like an object.

This allows me to partially satisfy my need to get closer to my human nature without excluding myself.

From 2013 to 2014, every day, I went hunting in my small territory (or on vacation) accompanied by my house dog. No super-precise rifle; I would rather have a slingshot or spear. At the end, I started to hunt for perfect shooting, equipped with a very rudimentary mobile phone.

My hunting season ended, I allow myself to share with you this series of snapshots, direct jpeg, of some of my best catches, my most “beautiful” hunting trophies…

Soccer field 2013-11-18 Mouscron Belgium

My shadow on the beach 2014-07-29 Andernos France

Born in 1973, I touch the camera since very young, my first was a Agfamatic 508 cassette 110. In 1995 I obtained a degree in visual communication option photography (in Belgium). Already at the time I was attracted by equipment rather low-end, mainstream (Lubitel, pocket Ricoh panoramic...). I appreciate the «approximate» and more or less random rendering obtained and I do not imagine finding this result with digital manipulations on ultra high definition files... In my opinion it is a nonsense.

So I “work” with equipment that many would call obsolete. From my perspective, as long as it works, I use it. This is my small gesture of resistance to our model of society that always pushes towards more consumerism through technological developments often presented as revolutions that promise, among other things, increasingly «clean» results and “easy” to obtain. Technology as a solution...

Far be it from me to be against progress but, personally if there was to be a revolution, I would wish it in the relations between humans in the know-how to live together and in the relationship of humanity to Nature.

Also, I do not seek to make perfect photos, and I like the idea that they do not lie by being more seductive than the materiality from which they emanate.

I also do not want to offer pre-digested images as we suffer so much on social networks, in some specialized press or through advertising. I’m not looking to brush in the direction of the hair to sell...

At the same time, I feel the video and I write, compose and interpret my music, all in the same spirit. I am also the facilitator of a workshop on plastic expression in the field of non-market.

All images and text © Sébastien Boulois