Eric BENARD (1961) - Lot 184

Eric BENARD (1961) The girl and the buffalo, Cambodia, 2013 Digital color print Numbered 1/5 On the back, signed, titled, dated, located and numbered Dimensions: 40 x 40 cm Note: In this photograph taken in Cambodia in 2013, Éric Bénard captures a moment of suspended calm between a young peasant woman and her buffalo, figures inseparable from the local rural landscape. With his square framing and soft colors, the artist highlights the harmony between human, animal and environment, in a composition where the verticality of the body responds to the horizontality of the rice fields. Bénard's work as a travel photographer focuses on everyday gestures and the sensitive relationship between people and their land. This image is an emblematic illustration, where simplicity and poetry combine to reveal the quiet dignity of rural scenes in Southeast Asia.