Somewhere… in the middle, 2014
This project is the result of a residency carried out in the Loir et Cher (France), in July and September 2014, as part of the international cooperation of the project “A Bridge over the Atlantic” between Les Rencontres internationales de la photographie de la Gaspésie and Les Promenades photographiques de Vendôme 2014.
On this occasion, Bertrand Carrière went to Vendôme and the Loir et Cher region with very few ideas about what he could find there, but with the resolute will to be able to grasp its essential character. He then turned this residency into a veritable laboratory of creation, punctuated by the exploration and questioning of the territory. In his search for fragments of history, he wanted his photographs to be marked by the human experience of travel.
“There is a beautiful madness in the idea of crossing the ocean to come in search of images of something we don’t know exists. I didn’t grow up around castles or vineyards. So how can I avoid an exotic vision of sweet France? As I travelled around the territory, exploring the department, I became immersed in what the land had to offer. I criss-crossed the department from East to West, from North to South, using the car as a research vehicle. I worked in the absence of a precise subject, without instructions or scenarios, in an instinctive way. I navigated by eye. The rules were invented as I went along. Most of my approach was based on what the present offered me. »
With a bias for colour and verticality, Bertrand Carrière has photographed a lot of landscapes, often architecture, as well as a few portraits.
“I tried to give a voice to silent things, to what slowly seemed to be destined to disappear. »
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