about

Born in France, currently based in Tokyo.

You can also find me on Vimeo and on YouTube.

Most individual time lapse sequences are available for licensing at Getty Images. Find out more about the process of creating them in this interview.

Don't hesitate to drop me a line at askme at samuelcockedey dot com.

 

about the "bones" series

The american and australian countrysides are home to thousands of abandoned cars. The long-forgotten carcasses of metal silently dissolve alongside their organic counterparts, as the paint skins peel off to reveal new textures of metal and rust and ivy slowly entwines them. What was part of the landscape becomes it.

Some have such striking presence and beauty that they truly become living installations waiting to be discovered in the wilderness. They infuse their surroundings with isolation and mystery. A closer inspection sometimes reveals details about their previous life; the rest can only be imagined. Thousands upon thousands of kilometers, decade after decade, their successive owners have lived their lives with and in them. Were they someone's first car? A graduation present maybe? How many first kisses took place on their seats? How many hours spent driving at night along deserted roads? Some bear the chilling stigmata of grimmer stories.

Manufactured before many of us were even born, sometimes originating from the other side of the world, they now find a higher purpose in a second life that will probably outlast the one they were originally intended for.

 

about the "metascapes" series

Meta- (from Greek μετά = "after", "beyond", "with", "adjacent", "self") is a prefix used to indicate a concept which is an abstraction from another concept, used to complete or add to the latter.

Metascapes are just that - landscapes within landsapes. New scenery emerges by removing part of the visual information and by blurring the cues our brain uses to assess depth of field.