Fortitude  mental and emotional strength in facing difficulty, adversity, danger, or temptation courageously.

 

This project is about the fold. Fold, unfold, not folding. We had all the freedom in the world to answer this theme. I've decided to create an editorial object, since the book is the very incarnation of the fold (several sheets of paper fold to create something different).

Every single page in the book is filled with black and white photographs. These images are close-ups of horse's neck.

Between the pages are "bellows" gathering a serie of texts from various authors (W. Whitman, Voltaire, M. Luther King, etc).

While the photographies symbolize trust, the fold and a change of state, the texts I chose are tales of spirits refusing to yield, to surrender or to give up what they stand for.