Nicolas Comment

Between 2014 and 2023, Nicolas Comment payed several visits to Saint-Tropez. First to join, his friend, singer and musician Christophe. Then, during the confinements of 2020 and 2021, to take refuge there. The Blue movie series tells the story of a Parisian family's off-season adventure to the South.

The destination is mythical: the Côte d'Azur, or French Riviera,  a dream for many artists. In 2014, Nicolas Comment visited for the first time, invited by singer Christophe to come and write on his boat, anchored at Port Grimaud, in the Baie des Canoubiers. The photographer spent a week chatting, working and laughing heartily with the performer of Mots bleus. A friendship was formed. The two met frequently between Tangier and Paris.

During the first confinement, on the bangs of the Covid pandemic, Nicolas Comment returned to Saint-Tropez. “We were prisoners in our Parisian apartment, and there we started to breathe,” explains the photographer. The confinement gave the star-studded seaside resort its old-fashioned charm, the kind that made Brigitte Bardot fall in love in the 1950s aswell as many tourists and onlookers afterwards.

In the shelter, Nicolas Comment photographs his partner and muse Milo McMullen, their daughter Unica and the whole gang of friends who have taken refuge there. Their names are Zula, Marie, Audrey, Amandine, Carine, Scarlett, Charles and Marc-Ernest. Through Nicolas' lens, in the land of Fauvism, and in the footsteps of some of the icons of the medium's history - Willy Ronis, Bernard Plossu - they will live and re-live the luminous legend of Saint-Tropez.

"This series has a double title: Blue movie, Bleu mental. It's a double wink. The first refers to the title of the erotic film Blue Movie, to be shot by Stanley Kubrick from a screenplay written by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg, one of Bob Dylan's mentors and a secret member of the beat generation. The second refers to “mental blue”, a concept coined by Colette to express the fact that Mediterranean blue is above all psychic. The whole pays homage to Les Mots bleus by Christophe, who was the first to introduce me to the bay, in 2014." 
Nicolas Comment