Flesh – intimate black and white photography by Bastien Pons
Flesh is not just skin. It bruises, folds, stretches, trembles. In this black and white series, Bastien Pons explores the human body as landscape — not in search of beauty, but of texture, vulnerability, and presence.
These photographs focus on fragments: a shoulder, a hand, the curve of a back. Stripped of identity and context, the body becomes abstract — a surface of tension, softness, and memory. The images invite the viewer to look differently, not for what a body is, but for what it feels like.
Shot in high contrast, with a careful attention to light, shadow, and grain, each frame is quiet yet charged. Nothing is explained. Everything is suggested. Flesh becomes matter, emotion, silence.
Influenced by his work in sound composition, Pons treats the body as a resonant surface — like an instrument or a wall. Every crease, pore, or scar tells a story, one that bypasses narrative and speaks through sensation.
This series is an invitation to slow down and perceive — beyond beauty, beyond form. For those drawn to intimate black and white photography, minimalist portraiture, and abstract studies of the human, these images offer a tactile, poetic gaze on what it means to inhabit a body.