Working with a range of media – sculpture, video, photography – Courbot documents the urban environment with an extraordinary sensitivity. His recreations of specific elements and his subtle interventions draw attention to the forgotten and discarded.

“ In the needs series, the main thing is the action, for me it’s not a photo series, it works like sculpture. Then I do the photos in a specific, precise way. The reason I came to this, I would not like people to go and to see what I have been doing in those places, because it would become a spectacle. I really feel like it has to be shown with a difference of space and time, it has been somewhere in some places, but then, it has no meaning to go and see a repaired bench, for example. "

— Didier Courbot