Melchior Tersen is a Parisian photographer. He takes pictures with a direct style (snapshot aesthetic, often with flash, always analog) borrowed from the popular culture of the 90s. Rap, fast-food, mangas, tags : the artist documents the violent tenderness of a suburban daily life. Deeply inspired by the pre-internet era, of which his generation is the last one, and which he describes as romantic. From this childhood of the 90s, he kept a passion for the collection. Metal patches, scarves and stickers of PSG (Paris football club), celebrities that he manages to approach with a resurgence of a fan attitude, dead since the Internet allowed some fake sensation of proximity. Also fashionable, he collects T-shirts and shoots occasionally for sportswear brands and for the press. It synthesizes for me the sensitivity of people living in the suburbs of the capitalist system, and the way they make their dream come true, without compromise, without artifice and with a deep sincerity. It smells stairwell, erotic magazines, joints in front of the playstation: the France in which I grew up.