A nurse since 2009, Lucile has primarily worked in psychiatric settings, a specialty that has always fascinated her. Her role in caring for patients has always felt natural to her: a need to feel useful while working with a population that is stigmatized or even rejected. Her profession is rich with meaningful human connections. Exceptional patients have left their mark on her career and help her grow every day. Her interest in people and their emotions has also led her to photography. The gazes and expressions captured in photos tell all kinds of fascinating stories. Through this medium, she loves to show people that their unique qualities and differences can be celebrated. Photographing people has become second nature to her. In recent years, she has photographed buildings slated for demolition: the Nantes jail, followed by an old psychiatric facility on the grounds of Saint-Jacques Hospital. Both are steeped in history; they are not merely walls. They are walls that have been inhabited and that have also confined people. For Lucile, preserving a record of these kinds of places is like paying tribute to all those who have passed through them.
In this spirit, and through the outreach projects she carried out at Saint-Jacques Hospital, she joined the Lettres Vives initiative, traveling to Volterra with Juliette Kempf to explore the abandoned asylum and create the images for the photographic installation Réponse(s).
