
Nous avons fait un très beau voyage
- Publisher
- Filigranes Éditions
- Year
- 2010
- ISBN
- 978-2-35046-202-8
- Specifications
- hardcover
175 x 245 mm
72 pages
57 duotone photographs
English / French
All the photographers gathered here understand travel as it was once understood: with time ahead and space around, with room to stitch together the imaginary and the real, far from tourist flows and the syndrome of collecting places. Jacques Borgetto has for years criss-crossed and photographed Latin America, a land to which he belongs, which holds him and which he renders with force and precision, a vision little inclined to clichés. Sophie Zénon, a great traveller, has repeatedly criss-crossed Asia, notably Mongolia, Far-Eastern Siberia and Cambodia, which we find revisited in her images. Even further from exoticism and closer to poetic language, with Françoise Nuñez and Bernard Plossu travel becomes sentimental: places are mere pretexts and settings, the true destination is the other. From Mexico to Italy, from Greece to Andalusia, their gazes, starting from the same viewpoint, give a stereoscopic vision in which photography is as much the reflection of inner visions as of reality.