Cœur bleu, voyage en Bretagne is a book of photographs taken over the course of a year around the Château des Flégés, a place that marked a part of my childhood. We would visit briefly, two or three times a year, just enough to make me tremble with both fear and wonder. I remember a pond of stagnant water, a treasure said to be hidden beneath the seventh step of a granite staircase, and my great-grandmother, ill and almost never leaving her room.
Forty years later, I returned to the château for short stays, following the rhythm of the seasons. I photographed what were, perhaps, fragments of childhood memories, and I also wrote about what I could no longer see. I wanted to enter this story the way one enters a novel.
Amaury da Cunha
Auteur, Photographe
Amaury da Cunha, born in Paris in 1976, is both a photographer and a writer. He graduated from the École nationale supérieure de la photographie in Arles in 2000 and quickly stood out for his dual artistic talent, combining image and writing. He is currently a journalist at Le Monde and an editor at Le Monde des livres.
In 2009, he made his literary and photographic debut with Saccades, a collection combining texts and images, published by Yellow Now. His first solo exhibition in Paris, in November 2012 as part of the Mois de la Photo, was accompanied by the publication of Après tout by Le Caillou Bleu. In 2015, he expanded his bibliography with Fond de l’œil (Le Rouergue), a collection of stories exploring photography, and Incidences (Filigranes), his third monographic work.
His writing diversified with the publication of Histoire souterraine, an autobiographical account published by Le Rouergue in March 2017. In May 2018, he collaborated with Sylvie Gracia on the publication of Demeure, a photography book accompanied by texts, published by h’artpon.
In 2021, after a writing residency at the Randell Cottage in Wellington, New Zealand, Amaury da Cunha published a documentary story, Baby Farmer, with Plein Jour. His next work, (Touche fantôme), will be published in March 2026 by Iconoclaste.
