Anabelle Decaix

Childhood, Freedom, Lines, Light

Childhood, Freedom, Lines, Light is a photographic series born from everyday life with my children. It explores childhood as a space of movement, instinct, and presence—where everything is still possible and nothing is yet fixed. Through simple domestic and outdoor moments, I observe how children inhabit space: the way they run, pause, climb, hide, and invent. I am drawn to the graphic presence of bodies in space, the natural geometry of play, and the quiet dialogue between light and form. Light is a guiding element throughout the series—not as a dramatic effect, but as something that reveals and softens, that shapes fleeting compositions within ordinary moments. Lines appear everywhere: in architecture, in gestures, in shadows, in the unpredictable rhythm of children’s movements. This work is an attempt to hold onto what is constantly disappearing: the freedom of childhood, its raw beauty, its chaos, and its poetry.