Beautiful Boy

In “Beautiful Boy,” Sébastien Dubois tells a visual story about the impact his estranged father’s passing had on his perspective. He explores his affected lens, documenting three distinct seasons during his first year of mourning.

Making the initial visit in April, he is confronted with his father’s final surroundings, a Swiss village by a lake. Comparing his present experience with that of his father’s recent past, he documents what makes him ponder, what makes him practice the one sided conversation of questions that go unanswered.

Did you visit that boulangerie often? It was just down the road from where you lived those last months.

Returning in Autumn, Dubois expresses the state of his visual lens. Instead of selecting subject matter for expression, he brings attention to the now clouded filter he perceives the landscape through. He turns his focus inwards and depicts how he is noticing, rather than what.

June signifies a New Year for him and marks the final season in the body of work. He captures an atmosphere of what he thinks future hope might feel like. Photographing summer abloom consciously built new connotations for him over past turmoil.
Someplace sunny please.

Dubois invites the viewer into his process of mourning a conflictious relationship.