Chroniques Terriennes is a book that looks at the idea of space adventure from the perspective of men and women. A Polymorph album with a documentary look, sometimes scenario, often intimate, which projects the echo of a humanity both serious and childlike into the great book of space.
A child’s dreams come to life, within reach. But with time, aspirations fade, reality imposes its compromises, narrowing the world and the universe of possibilities. Driven by a force that has always run through him, Mathieu César has a deep bond with space fiction and a thirst for otherness that calls him to explore human encounters.
His encounter with the Ariane group, for example, enabled him to bring together old and new friends for a letter-writing trip aboard a real rocket, the beautiful Ariane 6. Signatures and photographic portraits bear witness to the richness of each encounter in a book that offers a fascinating mosaic of fraternity and an exploration of its many facets.
Mathieu Cesar is a world-renowned French photographer and filmmaker who seduced audiences in 2013 with his series of monochrome portraits of electro duo Daft Punk to mark the release of their album Random Access Memories. He has published a compilation of his work under the title Vers l’infini et au-delà.
