One week with Sebastien Zanella
The magical things about welcoming someone is that it teaches you to see what’s right in front of you in a new way. But if that person is Sebastien Zanella, it’s a whole different story. Thanks once again for making it possible Sebastien! 🌞
You may be familiar with his work – the image above is just a small glimpse of his entire creative world –, and you can follow him here. If not, let us introduce you to Sebastien:
"Photographer, filmmaker, and poet, Sébastien J. Zanella explores the unseen. For over two decades, his work has documented freedom in all its forms—from skateboarding to surfing, from the margins to vast open spaces, from the tangible to the intangible.
His vision, both raw and lyrical, captures the moment where movement becomes poetry. Through his images and narratives, he seeks to reveal what lingers beneath the surface of reality.
After collaborating with some of the world’s most prestigious organizations and crafting books for Louis Vuitton and Saint Laurent, he has shaped visual poetry for Chloé, Hermès, and more."
Source: Sebastien Zanella's website.
Joining us on this trip were Marie, a French skateboarder and designer who grew up in South Africa and is now based in Lisbon; and Océane, who is of French and Luxembourgish origin with Cape Verdean roots and works in communications. She spent her winters in Lanzarote from a young age until she settled on the island a few years ago.
Discover Marie's and Océane's profile.
For the love
of poetry.
We’ve learnt a great deal this week. Sébastien is a man who walks amidst a cloud of references floating around him. Whenever the conversation calls for it, Spinoza, Baudelaire, Cézanne, Malick, Björk, Camus and others appear. From these days, we’ve taken away a few key insights: preconception is the enemy of creative processes, that if you give something a name you kill the idea, and that moodboards leave no room for spontaneity.
Everything he calls ‘poetry’ is impossible to describe in these words. We'll let you see for yourself when you meet him. What we are certain of is that a bit of this magic will be forever in this project, still to come. The images above are a sneak preview.
In the meantime, if you haven’t seen the latest ‘Forces of Nature’ collection yet, here it is, with some newly added items:
👉 Discover 'Forces of Nature' 🙂
Thank you for reading! 🌋🌞
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