December 2018, I'm driving alone in the deep night to my countryside. Francesca calls me with news that will change the course of our lives. With a short sentence, my mother slips me "I saw the neurologist, I have Parkinson's disease".
A brutal diagnosis, my thoughts turn to a flood of untranslatable questions, a feeling of injustice.
I continue my way like an automaton, letting Francesca unroll her flow of words on the technical aspect of the news. Both solitary, we can only count on each other, so we have to organize ourselves.
We had to get organized to tame our fear of the unknown, of this incurable disease that would
slowly and inexorably reduce my mother's movements and profoundly change her life.
The years that followed would lead me to accelerate my actions towards her as a caregiver and proportionally, to a decrease in her capacities. During this same period, I began my transition from musician to photographer, a dizzying discovery of a new medium. I then began a bulimic photographic process with each of my visits to Francesca's home. An intimate game of three voices is established between us, our motherdaughter relationship is gradually modified.
My lens becomes the silent witness of the slow process of destruction of her neurons, it allows me this necessary distancing not to sink into anguish, like a member of the family, the one who does not speak but who reports.

The series Francesca takes place between the end of 2018 and 2023, in the intimacy of a woman, my mother, suffering from Parkinson's disease. While being Francesca's caregiver in all areas of her life, administrative, medical, psychological, photography allowed me to put a distance in front of my emotions and this painful path towards the end of life.
This personal series gives an account of the long process of degradation of her neurons, between her home and her arrival in April 2022 in an institution for dependent elderly people (Ehpad) 300 km away from her home and it is also a testimony, bearing the word of all those who today travel this strange path of accompaniment for which no one is ever prepared.