When I asked Quentin de Briey what his process was for choosing the imagery for his new book, The Other Day, his answer was: spontaneity. Comprised of an amalgamation of personal photographs, commissioned work, and handwritten notes, The Other Day is, in essence, a visual diary, chronicling memories from the past 25 years of the photographer’s life.
De Briey began taking photos as a hobby after his aunt gifted him a Nikon manual camera for his 16th birthday. Over the next 10 years, he would casually capture both mundane and exciting moments while skateboarding and traveling with friends. It was only after an injury left him unable to skateboard that he began to consider photography as his full-time profession.
The images in The Other Day—which include snapshots taken during De Briey’s skateboarding days, vacations with girlfriend Steffy Argelich, and more recent fashion commissions—all look at home next to one another because they retain the same grainy, caught-in-the-moment quality that has come to define the photographer.
But culling together his body of work wasn’t as effortless as his photos let on. For that, De Briey enlisted the help of friend Jean-Baptiste Talbourdet-Napoleone, art director and image director for M Le Magazine du Monde. Talbourdet-Napoleone’s layering and overlapping of seemingly disparate pictures infuses the collection with a scrapbook-like, highly personal quality, allowing viewers to flip back and forth through the book, always discovering something new.
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