Lenteur (Slowness) is a photographic meditation on time, attention, and presence in contemporary U.S. society. In a culture shaped by speed — by productivity metrics, digital urgency, and constant responsiveness — these images insist on lingering. They ask what becomes visible when nothing is demanded of a moment.

 

The photographs unfold in quiet pairings: human figures in interior or institutional spaces alongside landscapes shaped by weather, water, and duration. Rather than offering narrative resolution, the images remain suspended. People wait, sit, stand, or look without clear destination. Paths curve away. Shorelines hold their shape. Time passes without announcement.

 

Slowness here is not withdrawal, but a way of seeing. The work resists spectacle and event-driven imagery, favoring the ordinary and the overlooked. By placing human presence beside nonhuman environments, the project draws attention to different temporal scales — social time measured in schedules and expectations, and ecological time marked by erosion, growth, and stillness.

 

In the United States, where speed is often equated with value, Lenteur proposes an alternative ethic: attention without urgency, presence without performance. The images create space for quiet relation — between people, between people and place, and between the viewer and the act of looking itself. Slowness becomes not an absence of action, but a form of intention and healing.