French, born in 1995. Lives and works in Saint-Mandé.
@lucas.pialot
Project Supported: MP#05 – Zones inondables

Coming from the world of cinema, where he worked as a cameraman, Lucas Pialot moved to still photography, driven by the need to slow down and dig deeper. Trained at Emi-Cfd in 2023-2024, he is now developing a documentary photographic practice nourished by an introspective approach, built on time and listening. He photographs places and stories that are rarely seen, with a keen attraction to disappearance and impermanence: spaces, communities, connections.

“One day, we may no longer be able to live here.
In 2023-2024, nearly 540,000 residents of Pas-de-Calais, already weakened by precarious conditions, were affected by historic flooding. Here, since the 1970s, the floodplains of rivers have been urbanized and intensive agriculture has been developed. The soil no longer absorbs water. Protections are insufficient and the risk is poorly managed. With this break in land use, the memory of risk has given way to a short-term culture.
Some have lost everything. Others live in unsanitary housing. Insurance companies are backing out. The poor have become poorer, the isolated more isolated. Several months after these floods, I went to meet the residents to get a sense of how, between denial, courage, and resistance, a disaster over which we now have little control can shake our lives.”