As a hypersensitive queer person in this patriarchal world, I ingested a lot of toxic stereotypes and fear, thus I grew up with the pervasive idea that I needed to be strong, tough, emotionally guarded, to survive. I tried to navigate between my yearning for being transparent and open enough to truly bond, and the fear of being vulnerable, weak, therefore, hurt. However, emotions are not a sign of weakness, but of humanity. We are not in competition : we are cooperative and empathetic - and those are the values we should celebrate. This would be the society I want to live in. Lora Mathis says: "radical softness is the idea that unapologetically sharing your emotions is a political move and a way to combat the societal idea that feelings are a sign of weakness. " Our visions are all distorted, by our education, our bias, our cultures, by normativity, the sum of all the stereotypes we have learnt . How can we picture human identities and connections ; how can we deconstruct labels and boxes ? Can we educate our eyes to see further ? How do we offer new points of views, and different perspectives ? Can we use the power of images and networks, the incredible connectivity they offer, to educate our eyes and minds in brand new ways ? Through my photographic work, I seek to explore to explore diverse ways of sharing, loving, and bonding with the world. I want to practice and picture the relationships between ourselves and others, affinities, bondings, joy, care, compassion, abandon, the corporeal and emotional pleasures, and the kindness of it all : Radical Tenderness, towards ourselves, towards our planet, towards the others, similar or different - human, animal, vegetal. With this work, I’m creating a space of heightened intensity in which the people I photograph present and perform themselves, tender and connected, and in Gandhi’s terms, being the change they want to see. Here we have Camille, Soren, Pierre and their cat, met in Toulouse on a summer evening, who opened to me their door into their soft and welcoming home.