Célian NAT

End of last year I created @bis.system followed by @natcelian . A system rooted in nature, where creation and sport are an excuse to spend time outside. I wanted to create a global studio, free of creative choices and medium. Where globality becomes locality, radicality and relevance must be mastered. The first choice is no longer the right one. The alternative is. BIS.

**BEST OF 2025** with a hint of 2026 now it’s time to reset here: night ride for @titicibikes community climb for @eskagang @arcteryxfrance ascent of Pointe Percée sunday hike for @outside.details @klattermusen @thetraka routesetting workshop for @apartassoc @eskagang prises de la Bastille for @arcteryxfrance layers of @p448 @teamboulderarena

**BEST OF 2020-2024** for the appreciation of what used to be with a hint of 2026 now it’s time to reset empty everything

quick view on the unposted pics I made of the @lasportivafrance event at @climb_up_paris for @eskagang and @chrysopee.media because I love how I edited them ahahhah apparently thanks to @northagcy through Eska also thanks @yohangrimpe for all the fun during the event, unexpected meeting, and thanks @melissaleneve for the coaching of our group and your jokes all along @imen_abda is the main model of this set

ARCHIVAL WORK — Alpine Club Magazine 1890-2010 Ok, so lately, I’ve been kinda hyperfocused on digging through old archives. French Alpine Club journals first. Bulletins from the 1890s, annuaires, La Montagne… all of it up until 2010. I don’t really know what I was looking for. Probably just something to catch my eye. But honestly? Most of it was a letdown. No striking photos, no interesting design. Just pages of text that looked like they were printed in a hurry. Very disappointing. Then I tried the Italian Alpine Club journals I had already dug a bit a year back for an architecture project. And suddenly, it all made sense. These people cared, not just about mountaineering, but about how they showed it. Italian design. Bold visuals, sharp layouts, real craftsmanship. Proof that back then, they respected not only the mountains but the way they presented them. While French Alpine Club magazine felt commercial, those one felt crafted. But beware, if you dig too deep, you’ll find the shadows too. Fascist propaganda and Mussolini’s speeches to alpinists. Scary things that shouldn’t belong in a mountain magazine but anyway. These photos are from 1980-81, but the archive I saved runs back to 1939. A reminder: the mountains have always been political. The way we document them? Even more so. “[…] les montagnes ouvrent l’horizons des possibles : elles sont des lieux de passage pour les persécutés, des refuges pour les opprimés et des terrains de résistances pour les révoltés.” — Guillaume Goutte, Alpinisme et Anarchisme

WINTER DUMP dec-jan-feb-mar Everywhere : - a random Grand Rex Gala - Milano’s Szn 0 Workshop - Climbing District - My Computer - Outside Detail Magazine Launch event - Milano - Fontainebleau Meet Vaya, the little white kitty cat, we just adopted her with my gf.

shooting and editorial with @bis.system partnering with @_____portal in the first issue of @outside.details magazine. directed by @neves.nico model is @remy.thelier photo and edit by me

october dump… for real this month went so fast lots of climbing this month lots of 3D some parties and aftermath and a new game Cow, K9, Deputy Oh and Eska is 2yo !!! HB to them 🥳

what if I was making photos for album covers? Part 2 just imagine… what if again shooting with the best model and mua @smochi06

what if I was making photos for album covers? just imagine… what if shooting with the best model and mua @smochi06

alternative subjects of the mountains, slovenia, north face of Triglav the only uniform thing here is the light of my flash, the sky as well as the lights and climate is constantly changing even in the same 4h hike. nothing much to say or show about the Slovenian UTMB… nothing much to show about Ljubljana either because I didn’t shoot during the days there. just mountain’s POI as I was left without a model too shoot… indeed my friend who was supposed to model for me got a strong height sickness because of his UTMB leaving his body too weak and going for the ascent of Triglav too soon after without any form of recovery. long story short, I had to call an helicopter to bring him back down at the hospital and get our stuff back down and retrieve our car in the valley alone on one of the most engaging hikes I have ever done.

ephemeral limestone, research thesis book few days ago, in a conversation with some friends, we were talking about thesis and what they contain and Aster highlighted the fact that, in a 170 pages thesis like mine, there is at least 50% that is unnecessary if I remember well. this made me realise two things, first, I never showed you my thesis book so here it is, one year later (and with an updated cover lol). second, I wouldn’t say 50% is bullshit. lots of things are said several times to be sure readers keep them in mind and remember them across the whole 170 pages but it’s not all bullshit. in my thesis for example, there is two medium parts dedicated to scientific and design research, a big big part about workshop experiments and interpretation and a medium part about free thoughts and reflection on the subject which is, to my eye and to his eye as well, the most important. just so you understand, this more speculative part in the thesis was not mandatory in my master as long as you have your experiences and results explained… this is so sad and stupid from an industrial design school. how can a designer make meaningful objects if he his not trained to be speculative. anyway, here is my thesis book about bio-inspired oyster shell and algae based ceramic fired under 100°c. be nice with this one because even if it doesn’t represent me as much as it used too, it is still one that I am very proud about. maintaining a coherent graphic design style on 170 pages of research thesis for someone like me with no graphic design background is still quite nice I believe.