Born in 1971, Florence D’elle is a self-taught photographer. Photography came to her by coincidence and became a way of life. Her visual language was transformed by the dead of her partner in 2015. She decided to face this dramatic situation in a positive way: she got passionate about analogue photography and historic techniques such as collodion, carbonprint and oilprint. A rhythm of slowness became a new mode of expression. It is probably a rhythm that Florence has always wanted to adopt and that makes her now feel more alive than ever. Through the techniques she used, images appear and disappear sometimes as the metaphor of a rebirth process. The hand-made techniques take time to be put into practice. These moments of creativity in the darkroom also enable her to fully reconnect with herself. The use of large format cameras in wood becomes an extension of herself, a slow and intimate process. Photography really has a power that goes beyond its technique. By example, the use of collodion is somehow fascinating: its imperfections and the appearance of the final image is magical since it first reveals itself to the photographer, without knowing what it will be until it springs out. For her, it is so metaphoric. Defects are also a key element of her visual lexical field: this narrative form has a symbolic aspect and offers space to the imagination. She like it when an image tells a story by itself and also when images side by side create a narrative. She defines so herself as storyteller. She needs to bring forth her vision, to share it like an organic mirror enabling us to see the world through images that have a subtle yet deep impact. Creating an emotion is important: Florence is in search of beauty and a sense of eternity.