About

I’m Théophile, an engineer, photographer and compulsive maker based in Munich.

I spend a lot of my time somewhere between machines, cameras, wilderness and never-ending projects.

By day, I work with automation, industrial systems, robotics and software. Outside of that, I happily start new projects involving analog photography, 3D printing, electronics, CNC machining, restoring old equipment, building things that probably did not need to exist, and occasionally disappearing into abandoned industrial places with a camera.

Photography

Photography is an important part of how I look at things.

I shoot both digital and film, with a particular interest in industrial environments, textures, strange geometries and places that carry visible traces of time. I also recently discovered how a long focal length can give access to entirely new subjects.

I like images where scale, material or context are not immediately obvious.

Maybe that is why one of my mottos is: hidden in plain sight

Analog photography forces me to think twice before taking an image. The delay, the imperfections, the physical negative and the development process all make the image feel less disposable and the risk of getting it wrong a little more real.

Sometimes the result matters.

Sometimes the process matters more.

Making things

I have always liked building, unbuilding and modifying objects.

That can mean designing a mechanical part in CAD, printing it, machining something, writing code, rebuilding old electronics or turning an obsolete object into something completely different.

A lot of my projects live somewhere between engineering and unnecessary experimentation.

That is probably where I enjoy them most.

Old machines, abandoned places and new ideas

I am fascinated by old technology and industrial spaces.

Part of it is aesthetic, but mostly I like seeing how things were designed, manufactured, repaired and adapted over time.

An abandoned factory, an old radio, a mechanical masterpiece or a piece of obsolete electronics, seen in today’s context, helps me make sense of the fast-paced environment we live in.

There is usually a story embedded in the way it was built.

I tend to photograph these things, take them apart, repair them, redesign parts of them, and occasionally all four.

This website

This site is a collection of projects, photographs, experiments and notes.

Driven by one key word: curiosity.