MISE EN SCENE Galerie d'Art (Morges)

Sometimes," says photographer Samuel Bitton, "early in the morning or towards evening, nature, without warning, takes possession of the soul of the beholder: it strikes the landscape, throwing prodigious light and color into the sky.

Just a few seconds in which the extreme beauty of the Earth emerges.

Samuel says nothing of the effort it often takes to be there, with the cameras, in difficult or dangerous places.

"In moments like these," he says, "nature decides almost everything; she's the one who gives to see; my role is to choose the frame and press at the moment of the craziest light..."

But what is nature trying to say? And who would speak? Samuel answers "that he doesn't know and that he only observes, appreciates in order to bear witness".

What nature seems to be saying with such obviousness right now is something infinitely disturbing, like: "love me..."

"If more people knew that moments like this existed," says Samuel, "the Earth would be better, Men would love it more, feel completely connected and protect it much more.

As soon as the crazy lights have disappeared, Samuel has only one thing to do: to bear witness to what he has seen, in large format, "the only thing capable", he says, "of conveying the strength and mystery of what he felt... ".

Like these drawings of the erosion of water on rocks: the lappias, these crevasses "so fine, so perfect that they cannot seem," he says, "to be anything other than a human work...".