
STORY
Afternoon Walk at Lake Annecy is a summer afternoon on the lake in Annecy, France, built from Charlotte's own photographs of the water, the promenade and the mountains above them.
Using her signature multi layer photographic technique, Charlotte composites many of her own frames into one image, the way a film editor assembles a scene from many takes. The layering does two different things here. At the top the photographs sit almost on top of each other, so the ridges hold their line and the far end of the lake stays almost clear. Down at the promenade they come apart. Walkers stand inside other walkers, a paddle boat sits inside another paddle boat, orange boats run through the boards of the dock.
The water is turquoise near the shore and goes blue green further out.
Everyone here is doing nothing in particular. Walking, sitting, biking, working, waiting for a boat. A family shares a rented boat at the lower right, three of them in orange life jackets.
Low in the water there is lettering off the side of a boat. Annecy-le-Vieux, the part of town Charlotte's family is from. It is the smallest thing in the artwork and most people will pass over it.
The impression is what the layers keep. Not the afternoon as it was photographed, but the way a place you keep going back to holds together.
This work is part of The Breathe Series, Charlotte Fonne's landscapes and cityscapes, where reality merges with the echoes of memory.
Each image in the composition is personally photographed by Charlotte, ensuring a genuine and unique piece. Signed, numbered, and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
Limited edition. Only 5 to 20 prints per size exist in the world.