Martin Gaudreault, artiste-photographe

Martin Gaudreault is an image hunter.
He interprets landscapes under the animated gaze of passion. He highlights the details of nature mainly, but also landscapes in which poetry is particularly present.
His influences
René Richard, his great uncle, one of the Canadian painters who best expressed the solitude of the great northern spaces through the seasons, was also a photographer. He is one of her main artistic influences.
The French photographer and cartoonist Henri Cartier-Bresson is another major influence in Martin Gaudreault's work. He admires the mastery of the photojournalist's compositions, particularly known for his street photography and his depiction of the picturesque or meaningful aspects of daily life.
The photographic couple Mia and Klaus (Mia Matthes and Klaus-Peter Matthes) also left their mark on Martin Gaudreault, with their particular way of presenting the beauty of various regions in Quebec.
These artistic influences, Martin Gaudreault uses them as an ideal to reach.
The technique
Martin Gaudreault uses the classic rules of photographic composition, the same ones that are taught in fine arts schools. Over the years of practice, with the technological evolution of cameras, digital photography has nevertheless replaced silver photography. However, the photographer does not add any element during the post-production. The effects are minimalist, thus respecting the original image, the authenticity of the moment captured, immortalized. He is an avid fan of the blue hour and the particularities of light at certain key moments of the day. He is a hunter of images, but also of luminosities.
His personal look
The digital eye of the photographer from Roberval is set. A true passion for colors and light animates him. Martin Gaudreault captures the tonal change through compositions that reflect the present moment. For him, photography is never a random image, it is a research, then a narration and an awareness of the natural and silent beauty that exists all around us. Calm, silence and a sense of serenity are an integral part of his work; they are omnipresent elements in Martin Gaudreault's particular aesthetic.
Through the sensitive expression of the photographer, who feels emotions through his work tool, a testimony is immortalized in a second of eternity. He expresses his very personal vision, often contemplative, on the diversity of Quebec landscapes and the elements that compose them, sometimes fragile and ephemeral.
In all humility, he offers his profoundly optimistic view to the public, in order to make them live an experience through images. Martin Gaudreault's universe is a space to see and feel; an aesthetic experience.