From Thousands of Photographs… Why These Few?

Because some people and places stay with us long after we leave them.

Do you remember those moments when you gather with your loved ones, and someone brings up an old memory? You reach for the dusty shelf, open an album you haven’t touched in years, and suddenly you’re time-traveling: back to the smell of a meal, the warmth of the air, the perfume of your mother, the laughter in a room you had almost forgotten. That’s exactly how it felt to go through my archive and choose these photographs: like reopening a box of moments that still breathe, still speak, and still carry a piece of the life that shaped me. Does it, in some ways, resonate with you?

Each photograph carries a moment I lived, a person I met, a question I asked myself somewhere in the world.

These are encounters. Discreet revelations. Lessons told by landscapes, by us humans, and chance. And so, I decided to release these prints simply because these moments stayed with me, and I wanted to let them live beyond my own memory. If they speak to someone else, then the journey continues.

Here I am, sharing with you a curated selection of moments that continue to speak long after the shutter closed. Hope you all can feel a part of you - of us- in these...

Let the journey begin...

The Walk, taken under the sun of Kenya, reminds me of pure strength.

Not the loud kind, but the kind carried silently by four women crossing a desert almost barefoot, step after step, steadily.

©Vincent Tremeau, Kenya. Limited Edition Fine Art Photography.

Market Day in Chad brings back the chaos and poetry of traders and animals gathering under the eternal Kanem sky.

“The present moment is all we ever have; the rest is scattered in shadows or carried by the wind.” - Marcus Aurelius.

©Vincent Tremeau, Chad. Limited Edition Fine Art Photography.

In The Unknown, a mother stands in what remains of her home in Senegal with her child, now open to the sea. Her serenity still humbles me.

©Vincent Tremeau, Senegal. Limited Edition Fine Art Photography.

In The Passenger, a woman walking through Mao turned an ordinary street into a fleeting theatre of light and color. I waited for this moment.

Funny, how the power of visualization passes into reality... A reality that stays forever.

©Vincent Tremeau, Chad. Limited Edition Fine Art Photography.

Some images are heavier.

Some are playful.

All of them taught me something.

The Surrender from Democratic Republic of the Congo is about childhood interrupted. Yet it is about that moment when hope surrenders to a new beginning...

©Vincent Tremeau, DRC. Limited Edition Fine Art Photography.

The Voodoo from Haiti is the memory of the day I first tested whether I had the courage to follow my dream to become a photographer: among boldness, fear, rhythm and all.

Then, I surrendered, to the power of faith.

 ©Vincent Tremeau, Haiti. Limited Edition Fine Art Photography.

The Soul, in Benin, is about a girl proud to write her name for the first time.

That moment of a new world unveiling will always stay with me.

©Vincent Tremeau, Benin. Limited Edition Fine Art Photography.

The Fire, taken while hiding from a storm in the chief’s house in Kasaï, is of a time and place telling me that sometimes the only thing we can offer the world… is a spontaneously shared moment.

©Vincent Tremeau, DRC. Limited Edition Fine Art Photography.

The Tuareg, at the border of Burkina Faso, carries the wisdom of a man waiting for peace that never answers quickly. He waits. Just like we all need to do someways.

©Vincent Tremeau, Burkina Faso. Limited Edition Fine Art Photography.

The Journey in the Senegalese desert, and The Day in the dust of Mao, are both meditations on movement. Where do we go? Who do we become on the way?

©Vincent Tremeau, Senegal. Limited Edition Fine Art Photography. ©Vincent Tremeau, Chad. Limited Edition Fine Art Photography.

And then there are the magical ones.

The Lights in Iceland that took days to reveal themselves.

Reminding me that patience results in a magical sight...

©Vincent Tremeau, Iceland. Limited Edition Fine Art Photography.

The Kanuri Woman in Niger whose portrait happened in a silent exchange of trust, where she confided in me only with the light in her eyes. Sometimes, we do not need words.

©Vincent Tremeau, Niger. Limited Edition Fine Art Photography.

The Friendship in Central African Republic, tells me that in the hardest places and situations, we are made to lean on some friend.

©Vincent Tremeau, Central African Republic. Limited Edition Fine Art Photography.

Road Trip in Niger, is of a long, unpredictable road where bumps, dust, and chance encounters turned a difficult journey into a story shared between strangers. Friendship and lifelong memories shared, sometimes with the most unexpected ones.

©Vincent Tremeau, Niger. Limited Edition Fine Art Photography.

Dog That Smokes. A mountain that caught my attention. Over there, they say that it is shaped like a dog exhaling clouds, showing me how our eyes love to tell stories to our minds.

A shift in perspective can transform a landscape into a playful myth.

©Vincent Tremeau, Guinea. Limited Edition Fine Art Photography.

The Unknown in Bangladesh, is about a man walking through a fierce sand wind in Cox’s Bazar, moving forward with a determination that cuts through the chaos around him.

Like we all do, no matter how blurry life can get sometimes.

©Vincent Tremeau, Bangladesh. Limited Edition Fine Art Photography.

Blue Mountains Nepal, is a moment of this quiet dawn rising over Dolakha’s mountains, offering the world a breath of clarity slowly appearing before the day begins. Everyday the same, yet, not...

And the Light in Myanmar... Eyes that meet the camera with a truth so raw it makes you question how much of another person’s world you are ready to understand.

©Vincent Tremeau, Nepal. Limited Edition Fine Art Photography. ©Vincent Tremeau, Myanmar. Limited Edition Fine Art Photography.

How Old Are You? I took this one in a room stacked with birth certificates, kind of challenging our obsession with age and the power we give to numbers to shape our destinies.

'What's my age again..?' by Blink 182 was playing on my mind after leaving this room.

©Vincent Tremeau, Senegal. Limited Edition Fine Art Photography.

Bonheur Flower, is a young florist named “Happiness,” whose simple deal resulted in me carrying fourteen bouquets through Bangui like the most unexpected gift of the day.

Follow the Unknown, is a priest crossing the garden in Sibut, as if inviting me to take one more step toward something I had not yet imagined.

©Vincent Tremeau, Central African Republic. Limited Edition Fine Art Photography.

Coffee Makers. A woman presenting fresh coffee cherries in her palms, holding within them the strength of an entire community’s work and pride.

©Vincent Tremeau, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Limited Edition Fine Art Photography.

Oubangui River, is about fishermen casting circular nets at dawn, searching the water’s surface for the faintest tremor that signals life. Is this not somehow what we all do this or that way, eveyday?

©Vincent Tremeau, Central African Republic. Limited Edition Fine Art Photography.

and finally...

A Sunrise on the Saloum, a landscape awakening with a softness only dawn can reveal. A moment that already holds the shape of the day to come, just as we each hold on to our own hopes. Because without hope, how could any of us move through the world at all?

©Vincent Tremeau, Senegal. Limited Edition Fine Art Photography.

How the Prints Are Made?

All prints are produced in Rome, Italy, in collaboration with local art studios who share the same obsession for detail that I have. We work with Hahnemühle 350g museum-quality paper and Baryta Satin 300gsm, papers that hold light the way a good story holds truth.

Colors are proofed by hand. Each edition is signed and numbered one by one by me. Every package is wrapped with the kind of care usually reserved for fragile hopes or family heirlooms.

Frames are not included, because choosing how to present a memory is a personal ritual. Shipping is included, because sending these stories out into the world should feel effortless.

I like to think each print travels twice: first when I take the photo, and again when it reaches your home.

Thank you for walking through these moments with me. In a world that moves too fast, thank you for taking a moment to pause with me.

If photography has taught me anything, it’s that every day holds a small miracle... Sometimes in the light, sometimes in the shadows, always in the human being standing in front of us. Wherever this finds you, I hope you feel connected, to the stories, the images, and to your own journey.

Until the next story,

Vincent Tremeau.