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"I imagine a world of rock and sea, nothing else, nothing but rocks and water, and the only living organism in the sea is jellyfish. They have the planet for they alone. And I learn now that they will recover the planet, as if time was backtracking. "

David Vann, Aquarium

MÉDUSES is a photographic project that lets us see and feel the destruction process of marine ecosystems that has been going on for several decades because of human activities (overfishing, pollution, global warming) and its bigger consecuence is the jellyfication of the oceans.

Inspired by many scientific research that augurs the disappearance in the medium term of the great majority of marine species; disappearing which would leave like at the beginning of the aquatic life the jellyfish being the only representatives of the living under water; I seek through a poetic process to express the violence of the consequences of our ways of life.

Because jellyfish populations can have important impacts on marine ecosystems, it is of paramount importance that we rapidly increase our understanding of these creatures.

The photographs are not made to make us fear the animal, nor to make us forget his absolute poetry, to be aerial in the water, to do nothing, ghost, pulsation, breath. They invite us to contemplate a world where they alone exist, almost blind witnesses of a multitude of shapes, colors, behaviors, and textures. To grasp their frightening beauty.

Through MÉDUSES images we connect with the nostalgia of a world that may soon be no longer here.