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The Road and I

The Road and I

Carla BernhardtbyCarla Bernhardt
23 de June de 2025
in Photo Essay

Selected in FotoDoc Photo Contest 2025

Row number 1. Subtle backlight. The driver’s shoulder and the door frame a black vignette. My gaze drifts to the right—passengers intrude into my field of vision; to the left, I see landscapes rushing past. Suddenly, like an epiphany, this window-within-a-window opens onto a coat of asphalt nestling in the curves of the Atlas Mountains.

Within this frame—both fixed and ever-changing—a new perspective imposes itself upon the world and upon me. A succession of scenes glides along the road behind this moving screen. A vision of Morocco. A crossing of sensations and fragments of daily life. I freeze these moments, narrating my road, my boredom, my enchantment, my impulses, my journey. My sole occupation is undoubtedly the search for new windows.

The delicate sway of rose hearts disrupts this near-melancholy and welcomes new stories, born of the road’s whims. I find myself surrounded by windows and imaginary tales. The stops—timeless parentheses—punctuate this throbbing journey like sudden jolts. The frame dissolves, letting the landscape unfold between slowness and stillness, always…

New stories—sometimes incongruous, sometimes poetic, always delightful—lend an exceptional flavor to the kilometers traveled. From Marrakech to Merzouga, a window opens onto infinite, vibrant stories scattered along a ribbon of asphalt.

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Carla Bernhardt

Carla Bernhardt

Carla BERNHARDT is a French photographer born in 1976. After studying art at the University of Strasbourg, she lived in Le Havre before settling in Guadeloupe in 2014—camera slung over her shoulder and a desire to write new stories. Alongside her photographic explorations, she collaborates with press outlets and is a member of the Hans Lucas Agency. Her photography weaves a poetic and aesthetic narrative that verges on documentary, focused on the dialogue between humanity and its environment. Through visual and emotional expression, she captures both the appearance and essence of her subjects. From nature to street scenes, in Guadeloupe or beyond, she trains her gaze on ordinary daily events—freezing moments in time, preserving traces of the fleeting and ephemeral: the emotion of an encounter, the story held in a glance, a texture, or a hand. With an almost painterly approach that is intimate and immersive, she collects visual and poetic fragments.

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